All Resolutions
Artist
- Name:
- Rethel, Alfred
- Dates:
- 1816-1859
- Country:
- Germany
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Woodcut
- Engraver:
- Zscheckel, Carl August
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- The Getty Research Institute, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Alfred Rethel; 16 Zeichnungen und Entwürfe
- Author(s):
- Friedrich, Walther
- Publisher:
- Mainz: Verlag von J. Scholtz, 1907
Description
In the fifth plate of Rethel’s Dance of Death, Death stands with a flag on a barricade, biting the collar of his coat in a strange grin. The ranks of the insurgents, who fight with cobblestones and guns against an army which fires with cannons, are being decimated.
The title reads in the original German: Der Tod auf der Barrikade.
This series of plates was engraved under the supervision of Hugo Bürkner.
Keywords: 1900s, 20th century, battle, death, shooting, smug, street, Yet another dance of death
