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The Nibelungen's End - The Death of Kriemhild

A work made of graphite and brush and brown washes on tan laid paper, with added strip of tan wove paper at top (restoration), laid down on brown wove paper.
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  • A work made of graphite and brush and brown washes on tan laid paper, with added strip of tan wove paper at top (restoration), laid down on brown wove paper.

Date:

1845

Artist:

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
German, 1794-1874

About this artwork

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s Nibelungen’s End—the Death of Kriemhild is one of several studies for an extensive fresco cycle for King Ludwig I of Bavaria’s Royal Palace in Munich. Ludwig’s prominent commission had a nationalistic bent and revived medieval German historical literature. The medieval Nibelungen poem centered on a female character, in this case the powerfully vengeful Kriemhild, and was adapted into an opera. Indeed, Richard Wagner started his Ring Cycle in 1848, three years after the date of this dramatic drawing.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Title

The Nibelungen's End - The Death of Kriemhild

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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1845

Medium

Graphite and brush and brown washes on tan laid paper, with added strip of tan wove paper at top (restoration), laid down on brown wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed with monogram recto, lower left, in brush and brown wash: "JS" [encircled]; inscribed recto, lower center on mount, in pen and brown ink: "‘Der Nibelungen Ende:’ den Nilfsbedürftigen Bindern / in Gert"; lower right on mount, in pen and brown ink: "Julius Schnorr. / Dresden im Marz 1862"

Dimensions

Primary support: 50.4 × 63.8 cm (19 7/8 × 25 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 62 × 68.5 cm (24 7/16 × 27 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

2013.1024

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