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porphyryThis is by the Symbolist painter Franz von Stuck (around 1890 or so):
Despite the fact that the person I have in mind would have been about 1 year old when this was painted (unless my memory is a few years off and he wasn't born yet), does anyone else instantly recognize the face of the main rider?
Does anyone know where this picture is located now? Does anyone know how it was treated in the period 1933-1945?
The theme of the painting is the Wild Hunt. In Germanic legend Odin and the Valkyries rode through the night sky collecting the souls of the dead to take them to Valhalla. By the time Early Modern priests started asking peasants about the story, it turned into the flight of the witches to the sabbath in the comapny of the Devil, or Holdin, or Dianna, or what ahve you. To cast this character (if any one else sees the one I do) into such a mythic mileu would have been brilliant in a painting executed in 1946, or even 1938--but how on earth did it turn up in the fin de siecle?
Despite the fact that the person I have in mind would have been about 1 year old when this was painted (unless my memory is a few years off and he wasn't born yet), does anyone else instantly recognize the face of the main rider?
Does anyone know where this picture is located now? Does anyone know how it was treated in the period 1933-1945?
The theme of the painting is the Wild Hunt. In Germanic legend Odin and the Valkyries rode through the night sky collecting the souls of the dead to take them to Valhalla. By the time Early Modern priests started asking peasants about the story, it turned into the flight of the witches to the sabbath in the comapny of the Devil, or Holdin, or Dianna, or what ahve you. To cast this character (if any one else sees the one I do) into such a mythic mileu would have been brilliant in a painting executed in 1946, or even 1938--but how on earth did it turn up in the fin de siecle?
