Der Singer

Janberg, W.

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1918

Height:

29.7 cm  (11 11/16 in.)

Width:

21.0 cm  (8 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

black ink, wash and crayon

Place of creation:

Deutschland

Description

A skeleton sits atop a mound of soldiers' corpses and sings at night with stars shining in a clear sky.

Iconclass

31F26(+5)
Death as skeleton (+ Death with musical instrument)
45A1
war
45A10
symbols, allegories of war; 'Guerra' (Ripa)

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Eitner, Lorenz, Betsy Geraghty Fryberger, Carol Margot Osborne, and Dwight C. Miller. Stanford University Museum of Art, the Drawing Collection (Stanford CA: Stanford University Museum of Art ; Seattle: Distributed by University of Washington Press, 1993) 399, no. 769.

RIdIM record id

5403