Object #8
The finest Viennese poet

Peter Altenberg: Wie ich es sehe
Fünfte vermehrte Auflage
Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1910
A Christmas gift from Heinrich Jalowetz to Arnold Schönberg, 1911

Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna

Dear Mr. Schönberg!
I believe that, now you are more favorable towards Vienna, these books by the finest Viennese poet in your closer circle of acquaintances will appear of value; all the greater than my belief that Altenberg is very close to you in many essential things. “How I see it” contains the following sentence:
“I am a searcher, a non-finder, a peace-disturber, a movement-bringer.”
That could almost have been written by you! [...]
All the best to you and your family at Christmas time
Yours, Jalowetz
Heinrich Jalowetz to Arnold Schönberg, December 1911