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Alfred Rethel — Dance of Death:  Death the Strangler
Alfred Rethel

Dance of Death: Death the Strangler

1850

Completing Rethel's dark meditation on death's inevitability, this woodcut depicts the skeletal figure as a violent force, demonstrating the artist's masterful use of dramatic contrasts in the woodcut medium.

Medium
woodcut

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Alfred Rethel, Dance of Death: Death the Strangler, 1850

Completing Rethel's dark meditation on death's inevitability, this woodcut depicts the skeletal figure as a violent force, demonstrating the artist's masterful use of dramatic contrasts in the woodcut medium.

Medium
woodcut
Year
1850
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Dark, Monochrome, Figure, 19th Century, Death Personified, Memento Mori, Expressionism, Melancholic, Death, Romanticism, Allegorical, Woodcut, German, Figurative

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