Date: 1910
Technique: Unknown
Showing posts with label August Brömse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label August Brömse. Show all posts
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August Brömse, The Lost Paradise
National Gallery, Prague
Date: 1902
Technique: Aquatint, 29.7 x 40 cm
From the series The Girl and Death
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August Brömse, I'm Coming
National Gallery, Prague
Date: 1902
Technique: Aquatint, 38.9 x 49.5 cm
From the series The Girl and Death
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August Brömse, Dance
National Gallery, Prague
Date: 1902
Technique: Aquatint, 18 x 25.3 cm
From the series The Girl and Death
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August Brömse, An Old Song
National Gallery, Prague
Date: 1902
Technique: Aquatint, 38 x 49.5 cm
From the series The Girl and Death
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August Brömse, Life Escaping
National Gallery, Prague
Date: 1902
Technique: Aquatint, 18 x 25.6 cm
From the series The Girl and Death
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August Brömse, In the Park
National Gallery, Prague
Date: 1902
Technique: Aquatint, 49.5 x 39 cm
From the series The Girl and Death
"The Girl and Death" is a modern variant of the Dance of Death. Death (a skeleton) plays a fantastic song on the violin; the girl listens in fascination and dances a wild dance — death accompanies her life's pilgrimage. Life becomes endless suffering for the girl, cursed by the deity; her love is fatefully led from the start by tragic steps. As a symbol of the first fruits of sin the girl, in some sort of hypnotic trance, flies through space on a great snake which — in some prints of the series — holds an apple in its mouth. The concept of the landscape evokes a sense of unreality and timelessness. One of the last prints brings the whole story up to date. The girl lies prostrate on a window-sill; the anonymous roof tops of the modern city appear in the background." — Otto M. Urban, p. 197
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August Brömse, By the Window
National Gallery, Prague
Date: 1902
Technique: Aquatint, 39.8 x 29.3 cm
From the series The Girl and Death
August Brömse, who was born in Frantiskovy Làzne and attended the Akademischen Hochschule fur bildende Kunste in Berlin, was one of many Czech artists influenced by contemporary German art and culture, especially by the graphic work of Max Klinger. According to Otto M. Urban,
The series The Girl and-Death, which originated in Berlin in 1901-1902, echoes the relationship of August Bromse with the concert singer Eisa Schünemann (they had known each other since 1902 but did not marry until 1910 when he was already living in Prague and heading the print studio at the Prague Academy), as does the later Nietzsche series "The Whole Being is Burning Sorrow" (1903, awarded a prize 1905 at the Paris exhibition). "The Girl and Death" is a modern variant of the Dance of Death.
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