Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (att.), Wanderings of Odysseus (Irrfahrt des Odysseus)

Private collection

Date: 1933
Technique: Oil on canvas, 55 x 35 cm

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, Souls on the Banks of the Acheron (Die Seelen des Acheron)

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Date: 1898
Technique: Oil on canvas

The mythological figure of Hermes Psychopompos stands at the edge of the river of the dead, facing a throng of recently deceased souls who implore him to save them from the last trip to Hades.

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Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, Ahasuerus at the End of the World

Private collection

Date: 1888
Technique: Oil on canvas, 55 x 90 in.

The bearded man is Ahasuerus, the legendary wanderer at the end of the world. He is the last man in the polar wilderness, caught between the angel of hope and the specter of death. Before him lies a fallen female figure, the personification of dead humanity, as crows circle ominously. (From Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter by James Gurney)

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