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Philip James de Loutherbourg died #OTD 1812. The 1st painting may have many interpretations, but it does indeed depict the ruins of Tintern Abbey.

Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard
The Vision of the White Horse
An Avalanche in the Alps
Landscape in the Lake District

#Art #Gothic

Jaroslav Panuška was born #OTD 1872. Although many consider his master-work to be landscape, what appeals to my twisted sensibilities are his fairy tale & fantasy art.

Baba Yaga
Vampire
Vengeance on the Dead
Water Sprite

#Art #BabaYaga #Vampire #Folklore

Wishing all my twitter-friends a #HappyNewYear! Here’s to another year of inspiration & madness! And to start it off properly, here are some Poe illustrations by James William Carling who was born #OTD in 1857.

#HappyNewYear2019 #EdgarAllanPoe #TheRaven #Poe #Art

Eberhard Kieser was born #OTD 1583. These woodcuts are from the 1648 edition of his Icones Mortis Sexaginta Imaginibus which contains copies of Hans Holbein’s (1497-1543) “Dance of Death” series.

#Art #Death #DanceOfDeath #DanseMacabre #MementoMori

William Blake was born #OTD 1757. These illustrations by Blake are for the poem “The Grave” by Scottish poet Robert Blair—one of the so-called Graveyard Poets.

The Skeleton Reanimated
The Gambols of Ghosts
Death’s Door
By an Open Grave

#Art #WilliamBlake #Romanticism #Gothic

Heinrich Lefler was born #OTD 1863. These beauties are from “Grimms Märchen” (Grimms’ Fairy Tales) and were by both Lefler and his brother-in-law Joseph Urban.

Godfather Death
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and Rose Red
Snow White

#Art #ArtHistory #ArtNouveau #GrimmsFairyTales

Ferdinand Knab died #OTD 1902. The titles and translations of each painting vary, but the first one is generally known as The Castle Gate (Das Schloss Portal).

The Castle Gate
Fantasy Landscape
Elegy
Roman Ruins

#Art #ArtHistory #Romanticism

Clara Siewert died #OTD 1945. Much of her work was destroyed by a bombing raid during WWII and she has remained mostly forgotten ever since.

The Apotheosis of a Witch
Death and the Maiden
Spring Fantasy
Fashion Goddess

#Art #ArtHistory #Witches

It has been a wretched month & I am moving once again. But here are some paintings I love that reflect my current state of mind:

Carl Gustav Carus — Faust in his Study
George Roux — Spirit
Victor Oliva — Absinthe Drinker
James Carling — (From his Poe Illustrations)

#Gothic #Art

In honour of Arthur Rackham who died #OTD 1939, here are some of his illustrations from The Ingoldsby Legends (1898 & 1907) which contain ghost stories, tales of strange myths & legends, and poetry.

#FolkloreThursday #Folklore #Art #ArthurRackham #GhostStories