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Death and the Maiden (motif)

Art motif

Death and the Maiden (Der Tod und das Mädchen in German) was a common motif in Renaissance art, especially in German painting and printmaking. The usual form shows just two figures, with a young woman being seized by a personification of Death, often shown as a skeleton. Variants may include other figures. It developed from the Danse Macabre with an added erotic subtext. The German artist Hans Baldung depicted it several times.

The motif was revived during the romantic era in the arts, a notable example being Franz Schubert's song "Der Tod und das Mädchen", setting a poem by the German poet Matthias Claudius. Part of the piano part was re-used in Schubert's famous String Quartet No. 14, which is therefore also known by this title, in either English or German.

Selected versions

Painting: Death and the Maiden (Der Tod und das Mädchen) by Hans Baldung (1517)
Painting: Death and the Maiden (Der Tod und das Mädchen) by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch I (1517)
Painting: Young Woman and Death (La jeune fille et la mort) by Henri-Léopold Lévy (1876)
Engraving: Death and the Maiden (Døden og Piken) by Edvard Munch (1894)
Painting: Death and the Maiden (Der Tod und das Mädchen) by Adolf Hering (1900) – private collection, location unknown
Painting: Death and the Maiden by Marianne Stokes (1908)
Painting: Death and the Maiden (Tod und Mädchen) by Egon Schiele (1915)
Drawing: Death and the Maiden (Der Tod und das Mädchen) by Clara Siewert (1920s)
Drawing: Death and the Maiden (Der Tod und das Mädchen) by Joseph Beuys (1959)
Painting: Death and the Maiden, Ballet for Two by Herbert Lautman (1995)

Gallery

File:Hans Burgkmair the elder - Lovers Surprised by Death - Google Art Project.jpg|Hans Burgkmair, Lovers Surprised by Death, 1510. Art Institute of Chicago File:Gw11 0001031 20170619 001 Baldung Der Tod und das Maedchen.jpg|Hans Baldung, Death and the Maiden, 1517. Kunstmuseum Basel File:Niklaus Manuel Deutsch 003.jpg|Chiaroscuro woodcut by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch I, 1517. Kunstmuseum Basel File:La Mort embrassant une jeune femme debout. (Hollstein 150 Pauli 151), GDUT10582.jpg|Small engraving by Sebald Beham, 1547 File:La jeune fille..Lévy Nancy 2718.jpg|La jeune fille et la mort by Henri-Léopold Lévy, 1876. Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy File:Edvard Munch - Death and Life - Google Art Project.jpg|Edvard Munch, Death and Life, 1894. Munch Museum, Oslo File:Death and the Maiden by Elna Borch, 1905 - Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek - Copenhagen - DSC09501.JPG|Elna Borch, 1905. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Egon Schiele - Der Tod und das Mädchen.jpg|Death and the Maiden, by Egon Schiele, 1915. Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna File:Heinrich Hoerle Der Tod und das Mädchen c1919.jpg|Heinrich Hoerle, c. 1919 File:היפה והמוות משתקפים כבלט בדואט.jpg|alt=Oil on canvas|Herbert Lautman, Death and the Maiden, Ballet for Two (1995)

Notes

References

Le Mort dans l'Art

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