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Alfred Rethel

31 works

Alfred Rethel (1816-1859) was a painter and draftsperson. Read more

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Painting of a glowing hooded figure with a staff reaching toward a man in green clinging to a rock cliff above a valley.

A Guardian Angel Rescuing Emperor Maximilian from the Martinswand

1839

Oil portrait of an older woman in a lace bonnet and paisley-bordered white shawl against a green background.

Portait of the Artist's Mother

1833

Engraving of a hooded skeletal Death beside a seated old man in a stone room with a crucifix and open arched view.

Dance of Death: Death as a Friend

1850

Engraving of a cloaked skeleton playing a fiddle amid sprawled bodies in a hall, with musicians and a seated figure behind.

Dance of Death: Death the Strangler

1850

Engraving of a skeletal Death figure striding among fallen revelers in a hall while musicians play above.

Death the Strangler, The First Outbreak of Cholera at a Masked Ball in Paris, 1831

1851

Woodcut of a skeleton waving a flag on a barricade while fighters tumble and fire amid smoke, with German verse below.

Auch ein Todtentanz, plate V

1848

Skeletal rider on a galloping horse with a scythe, ravens in the foreground and a walled city with spires in the distance.

Auch ein Todtentanz, plate II

1848

Engraving of a revolutionary holding a banner and raised sword above a crowd, with fallen bodies in the foreground and German

Auch ein Todtentanz, plate IV

1848

Black and white print of a tavern where a skeleton holds scales over a table of drinkers, with a hooded skeleton leading a ch

Auch ein Todtentanz, plate III

1848

Skeleton rider on a horse amid fallen bodies and a street battle, with soldiers and burning buildings in the background.

Auch ein Todtentanz, plate VII

1848

Pencil drawing of a hooded robed figure gazing upward among several lions in a rocky landscape.

Daniel in the lions' den

1838

Pencil sketch of a kneeling man tending an injured figure beside a standing donkey, on tan paper.

The Good Samaritan

Brown wash drawing of a winged blindfolded figure with scales and sword pursuing a running man over a horizon.

Nemesis, pursuing a murderer as Justitia

Grey wash drawing of an armored knight with plumed helmet standing within a pointed gothic arch.

Entwurf zum Bild Kaiser Maximilians I. im Frankfurter Römer

Engraving of a hooded skeletal Death figure beside a seated elderly man in a stone room with a crucifix and open window.

Der Tod als Freund (Death as a Friend)

1851

Woodcut of Death as a skeleton in a cloak strangling men amid fallen bodies in a room with a canopied bed.

Der Tod als Erwürger (Death as a Strangler)

1851

Woodcut by Alfred Rethel showing a skeleton Death with allegorical figures, a sword, scales and a horse, with verse below.

Ausschnitt (Bild 1) aus: "Ein Todtentanz aus dem Jahre 1848."

1848

Woodcut of a skeleton rider on a gaunt horse with a scythe, crows below, and a walled city with cathedral spires beyond.

Ausschnitt (Bild 2) aus: "Ein Todtentanz aus dem Jahre 1848."

1848

Woodcut print of a revolutionary crowd in a city square, a man raising a sword, fallen bodies, and German verse below.

Ausschnitt (Bild 4) aus: "Ein Todtentanz aus dem Jahre 1848."

1848

Woodcut print of a skeleton leading revolutionaries with a flag on a barricade, with German verse below.

Ausschnitt (Bild 5) aus: "Ein Todtentanz aus dem Jahre 1848."

1848

Title page of a gothic-lettered 19th-century print, Auch ein Todtentanz, by Alfred Rethel, with verse and publisher details.

Auch ein Todtentanz: Title Page

1849

Woodcut of a skeleton holding scales above a tavern table, with a crowd, a horse, and a sign reading Freiheit Gleichheit Brüd

Auch ein Todtentanz III

1849

Woodcut print of a skeleton Death figure with allegorical women, a horse, scales and hooded figures, with German verses below

Auch ein Todtentanz I

1849

Woodcut of a skeleton holding a flag atop a barricade among fallen revolutionaries, with smoke and German verse below.

Auch ein Todtentanz V

1849

Woodcut by Alfred Rethel, 1849: a skeleton Death rides a white horse over fallen bodies in a city street with soldiers and a

Auch ein Todtentanz VI

1849

Woodcut print of a man raising a sword labeled Volks Justiz above a crowd and fallen bodies in a city street.

Auch ein Todtentanz IV

1849

Woodcut of a skeletal death rider with a scythe galloping past crows toward a walled city with church spires.

Auch ein Todtentanz II

1849

Printed German verse in blackletter type, set in two columns on aged cream paper with light staining.

Auch ein Todtentanz: Text Page

1849

Graphite drawing on tan paper with white highlights showing a draped seated figure above and folded cloth below.

Drapery Study

1816-59

Grayscale drawing of a seated writer at a candlelit desk, surrounded by framed vignettes of dramatic scenes.

Schiller am Schreibtisch

Grey wash drawing of a seated writer at a desk by candlelight, framed by ten vignettes of dramatic scenes.

The Bride of Messina

Alfred Rethel (1816-1859) was a painter and draftsperson. Alfred Rethel was born in Aachen and died in Düsseldorf. Browse 31 works by Alfred Rethel from 7 museums, free to download in HD. Source: Wikidata