All Resolutions
Artist
- Name:
- Rethel, Alfred
- Dates:
- 1816-1859
- Country:
- Germany
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Woodcut
- Engraver:
- Gaber, 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
The sixth and final woodcut of Rethel’s Dance of Death shows a street after the battle. As the smoke dissipates and each side mourns its dead, Death, divested of all garments save a laurel wreath, rides his horse to the top of a barricade, carrying a seemingly blank flag. While the animal licks blood from the wound of a fallen man, Death turns his eyes toward a dying insurgent.
The title reads in the original German: Der Tod als Sieger.
This series of plates was engraved under the supervision of Hugo Bürkner.
Keywords: 1900s, 20th century, crying, death, horse, street, Yet another dance of death
