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The Somnambulist or Sleepwalker, as depicted by 3 late 19th century artists.
Alfons Muchha, 1885
Maximilian Pirner, 1878
John Everett Millais, 1871
In 1899, Sigmund Freud published "The Interpretation of Dreams".

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2020-01-06

Medusa by Maximilian Pirner (1853-1924). Living venomous snakes in place of hair - and killer eyes. Ancient Greek mythology.

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2019-12-11

Medusa by Maximilian Pirner (Czech, 1853-1924). Those who gazed upon her face would turn to stone.

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2019-11-11

Fairy funerals are commonly described in folklore. Typically, a man or a woman stumbles on a fairy princess being buried in the middle of the night.
Source: https://t.co/fxXTFsKJYa
'Fairy Funeral' by Maximilian Pirner,1888

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2019-11-04

The End Of All Things by Maximilian Pirner.
1887.

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2019-10-28

Hi Emma, the painting is “The Fairy Funeral” by Czech painter Maximilian Pirner. Did you spot the fairy harpist? Isn’t she adorable? Great bum!

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2019-09-18

🎨Maximilian Pirner 🇨🇿

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2019-09-13

Maximilian Pirner (1854-1924)

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2019-08-19

Maxmilián Pirner
HEKATE
1901

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2019-08-20

FAIRIES & THE DEAD Evans Wentz (1911) recorded the Highland belief in hosts as the evil dead & Cornish Peskies as the souls of unbaptised babies, appearing at Twilight in the form of moths Images: Pirner 1888; Highgate; white plume moth

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2019-08-15

Maximilian Pirner (1853–1924) was a Czech painter. usual themes were classical mythology. He was a member of the Vienna Secession. Described by one critic as having achieved "mastery of the sinuous line".

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2019-08-10

Funeral Nymphs, Maximilian Pirner

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2019-08-07

체코의 화가 Maximilian Pirner의 작품들...그는 신화속의 장면들을 마치 요즘 온라인게임의 원화처럼 그려내고 있는데, 19세기 작품들이란게 믿기지 않을 정도로 놀랍도록 세련된 작품들이다...

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2019-06-18

Gulliver Between Gnomes (1910) by Maximilian Pirner (1853-1924).

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2019-06-12

Our fab new hashtag for June is - we're interested in the relationship between the two in preparation for a big announcement coming soon !! Here's a fairy funeral, Maximilian Pirner, 1888, to get us started. Do join in!

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2019-06-10

FAIRY FUNERALS. Sightings occur in recorded by Croker & Keightley in the C19th. claimed to have witnessed a burial in his own garden. Victorian artists John Anster Fitzgerald & Maxmillian Pirner invest fairy death scenes with fragile melancholy & wonder

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2019-06-01