Walburga "Wally" Neuzil (18 August 1894 – 25 December 1917)[1] was an Austrian nurse who was the lover and muse of the artist Egon Schiele between 1911 and 1915.
In 1906, Thekla and her five daughters (Wally had an older sister named Anna) relocated to Vienna, some 30 kilometres to the north of Tattendorf.
[4] After struggling to fit into Viennese society, Neuzil and Schiele moved to her mother's hometown of Krumau (now Český Krumlov) in Bohemia.
[5]Many of these paintings featured Wally as a subject in suggestive poses, hence it has been theorized the reason Schiele asked Wallt to sell them instead of himself was that that male buyers would find it tiltillating to see the model ans be more inclined to buy the art[5].
Schiele wrote how Neuzil was the only one of his friends and acquaintances who continued to offer him support during the twenty-four days he spent in prison.
[9] It was subject to a protracted legal battle in 1998 following its display on loan in the US after The New York Times reported that the painting had been improperly acquired by the museum via Nazi looting of Jewish-owned art during the Holocaust.
The same year the Wall-Neuzil Society[12] was founded in Cambridge who has as its stated purpose to carry out research on Neuzil and to maintain her grave in Sinj.