Online exhibition in 80 objects
If I do not touch your body today, op. 15/8
Object #26
Arnold Schönberg
Wenn ich heut nicht deinen Leib berühre [If I do not touch your body today], op. 15/8
Text: Stefan George
1908
Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien
“With the George Lieder I have for the first time succeeded in approaching an ideal of expression and form which has been in my mind for years. Until now, I lacked the strength and confidence to make it a reality. But now that I have set out along this path once and for all, I am conscious of having broken through every restriction of a bygone aesthetic; [...] I am being forced in this direction not because my invention or technique are inadequate, [...] but that I am obeying an inner compulsion, which is stronger than any upbringing: that I am obeying the formative process which, being the one natural to me, is stronger than my artistic education.” (Schönberg, 1910)

Self-Portrait
Object #1

Theory of Harmony
Object #2

Hatred
Object #3

Arnold Schönberg
Object #4

Hatred and Critic
Object #5

Aphorisms
Object #6

Response to scholarly questions
Object #7

Poetry
Object #8

Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Object #9

Dank [Thanks], op. 1/1
Object #10

Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm (Jesus bettelt) [Give me your golden comb (Jesus begs)] op. 2/2
Object #11

Arnold Schönberg
Object #12

Memory of Oskar Kokoschka
Object #13

A rendezvous
Object #14

A rendezvous
Object #15

Arnold Schönberg
Object #16

Blue Gaze
Object #17

String Quartet No. 2, op. 10/4
Object #18

Chamber Symphony No. 2, op. 38
Object #19

Red Gaze
Object #20

String Quartet No. 1, op. 7
Object #21

String Quartet No. 1, op. 7, Adagio
Object #22

Analysis of Opus 7
Object #23

I may not gratefully, op. 14/1
Object #24

Gaze
Object #25

If I do not touch your body today, op. 15/8
Object #26

Expectation
Object #27

Letter to Hermann Bahr
Object #28

On Opera
Object #29

Expectation, op. 17
Object #30

An Ambition
Object #31

Gazes
Object #32

Painting Influences
Object #33

Photographs
Object #34

Music and Psycho-Analysis
Object #35

Art salon Hugo Heller
Object #36

Publishing house Hugo Heller
Object #37

Gaze
Object #38

Letter to Mathilde Schönberg
Object #39

Florizel’ s spirits]
Object #40

Gustav Mahler
Object #41

Gustav Mahler
Object #42

Piano Piece, op. 19/6
Object #43

Funeral of Gustav Mahler
Object #44

Gustav Mahler
Object #45

Tears
Object #46

Gustav Mahler’s grave
Object #47

Bells at Thury
Object #48

Gaze
Object #49

Sketch of a piece for orchestra
Object #50

Piano Piece, op. 11/2
Object #51

Draft of a will
Object #52

Vision of Christ
Object #53

Pauline Schönberg
Object #54

Self-Portrait
Object #55

Mathilde Schönberg
Object #56

Requiem
Object #57

After Mathilde’s death
Object #58

Gaze (Karl Kraus: The Great Wall of China)
Object #59

Adorn thyself, o dear soul
Object #60

Gaze
Object #61

Foliage of the Heart, op. 20
Object #62

Self-Portrait
Object #63

Portrait
Object #64

Arnold Schönberg’s apartment
Object #65

Seraphita, op. 22/2
Object #66

Woodcut on Schönberg’s Jakobsleiter
Object #67

Drawing in reply to a dedicated woddcut
Object #68

Jacob’s Ladder
Object #69

Adolphe Willette’s last vision
Object #70

Jacob’s Ladder, The Soul
Object #71

Jacob’s Ladder, recitation
Object #72

Gaze
Object #73

Jacob’s Ladder
Object #74

Offstage orchestras
Object #75

Thinking
Object #76

Moses und Aron
Object #77

Self-Portrait
Object #78

Moses und Aron
Object #79

Self-Portrait
Object #80