Ahnen des Todes by Aloys Wach (1922)

Etching of skeletal figures and a hooded figure with bony hands rising from a dark, mottled background.

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Why is this public domain? Aloys Wach died in 1940; this work is in the public domain.

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This small etching depicts a cluster of skeletal figures and a hooded, robed figure emerging from a dark, mottled background, with bony hands raised at the upper edges. The restrained linework and shadowy tonal ground give the scene an eerie, funereal character.

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1922

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