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View at the museum ↗The Nibelungen's End - The Death of Kriemhild
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld1845
- Attribution
- Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld German, 1794-1874
- 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
- Physical 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
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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.
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