Death and the Maiden
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Death and the Maiden is a 1915 expressionist painting by Austrian artist Egon Schiele that portrays an intense, symbolic embrace between a young woman and a skeletal figure representing death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Death and the Maiden canonical | 2 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expressionist painting
ⓘ
painting ⓘ |
| artForm | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext | early 20th-century Austrian art ⓘ |
| artStyle | figurative expressionism ⓘ |
| basedOn | traditional death and the maiden motif ⓘ |
| collection |
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
ⓘ
surface form:
Belvedere Museum
|
| colorPalette | muted earth tones ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Austria ⓘ |
| creator | Egon Schiele ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Austrian ⓘ |
| depicts |
intimate embrace
ⓘ
personification of death ⓘ skeletal figure ⓘ young woman ⓘ |
| describedAs |
emotional
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intense ⓘ symbolic ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt |
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
ⓘ
surface form:
Belvedere Museum, Vienna
|
| genre |
allegorical painting
ⓘ
symbolic painting ⓘ |
| hasCulturalMotif | memento mori ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | interpretations of the death-and-maiden motif in modern art ⓘ |
| hasInterpretation |
meditation on impending death
ⓘ
reflection on the fragility of human relationships ⓘ |
| hasPart |
clasped figures
ⓘ
landscape background ⓘ |
| imageSubject | clinging woman and death figure on ground ⓘ |
| inception | 1915 ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Symbolism
ⓘ
Austrian Expressionism ⓘ
surface form:
Viennese Expressionism
|
| location | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere ⓘ |
| mainSubject | embrace between woman and death ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Expressionism ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Egon Schiele ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Tod und Mädchen ⓘ |
| partOf | Egon Schiele’s late works ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | World War I era ⓘ |
| significantEvent | created during World War I ⓘ |
| significantFigure |
death figure
ⓘ
female protagonist ⓘ |
| theme |
eroticism
ⓘ
love and death ⓘ mortality ⓘ transience of life ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | German ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.