• The Egon Schiele Project

    The Kallir Research Institute is engaged in a multi-year update of Jane Kallir’s catalogue raisonné Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, first published in 1990. Phase I, including comprehensive entries for the artist’s oils, prints, sketchbooks and sculptures, is currently available at egonschieleonline.org. Phase II, comprising entries on the artist’s roughly 3,000 watercolors and drawings, is expected to launch in 2025. Phase III—updating the provenances, literature and exhibition histories of the watercolors and drawings—will follow.

     

    The Kallir Research Institute provides opinions on the authenticity of works attributed to Schiele not included in the current catalogue raisonné. Please contact us for further information.

  • photograph of a tan linen bound hardcover book shot from above at an angle on a white background. the upper... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Otto Kallir, Egon Schiele: Oeuvre Catalogue of the Paintings, Deluxe Edition, 1966 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Photo of the cover of the Egon Schiele The Graphics Work book. Cover features a 1918 drawing of a girl... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    colorful cover of a book by Jane Kallir of Egon Schiele's complete artistic output. features a gouache portrait of a... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    screencapture of the homepage of the website egonschieleonline.org, showing descriptive text and menu navigation for the online catalogue raisonne website... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Otto Nirenstein [later Kallir], Egon Schiele: Persönlichkeit und Werk, 1930

  • Museum Donations

    The Kallir Research Institute is currently overseeing the donation of the Kallir family’s art collection to select museums. Donations thus far include: 
     
    • 7 drawings and unique proofs by Käthe Kollwitz to the Museum of Modern Art, New York
    • 9 paintings by Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
    • 3 paintings by Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
    • 2 paintings by Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses to Crystal Bridges Musuem of American Art, Bentonville
    • 2 paintings by Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses to the Bennington Museum, Bennington
    • 2 paintings by Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles
    • 10 works by a variety of women Expressionists to the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
     
    The Kallir family is carrying out a multi-year program that will establish a Grandma Moses study center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. 
  • Grandma Moses, Out for Christmas Trees, 1946, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Kallir Family in honor of Hildegard Bachert, 2017.34.2, © Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Käthe Kollwitz, Storm, before 1897, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Gift of the Kallir Family in Memory of Hildegard Bachert, 2024, © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    a landscape oriented etching print in black on white paper by Lea Grunding showing an exodus of people moving in... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    a colorful interior scene painting by Grandma Moses showing people partaking in various family activities about a large room with... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Colorful painting by Grandma Moses shows a large white building in a busy country village, with people and horses on... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Käthe Kollwitz, Mother and Children Going Toward Death, 1924, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Gift of the Kallir Family in Memory of Hildegard Bachert, 2024, © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Grandma Moses, Out for Christmas Trees, 1946, donated to the Smithsonian American Art Museum by the Kallir family

  • Lectures & Webinars

  • Panel Talk | Gender & Sexuality in Egon Schiele's Work

    Austrian Cultural Forum New York, June 15, 2023

  • Lecture | Otto Kallir and Gustav Klimt: From Vienna to America

    First Gustav Klimt Symposium, Austria, June 10, 2022

  • Webinar | The Uses and Limitations of Provenance Research

    January 11, 2022

  • Egon Schiele Symposium | Reconfiguring Gender: Egon Schiele and the Gay Subculture

    December 3, 2021

  • Webinar | Otto Kallir: Collector & Scholar

    October 26, 2021

  • Webinar | Saved from Europe: The Artistic Legacy of Otto Kallir

    September 28, 2021