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Some mournfully mythical art by Czech painter Maximilian Pirner #BOTD 1853
Hekate
Death
Medusa
#art #Mythology #romanticism
Czech artist Maxmilián Pirner was born #OTD 1853. If it’s not already obvious, he had a penchant for mythology, the strange, & the macabre.
The End of All Things (detail)
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The Fairy Funeral
Death
#Art #ArtHistory #ArtNouveau #Mythology #Death
Las pasiones desbordantes de los autores del siglo XIX....
🎨 Maximilian Pirner (1854-1924): Finis. El fin de todas las cosas, 1887. Museo Nacional, Praga.
#art #loveart #artlovers #sigloxix
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".
Medusa by Maximilian Pirner (1853-1924). Living venomous snakes in place of hair - and killer eyes. Ancient Greek mythology. #CzechArt
Medusa by Maximilian Pirner (Czech, 1853-1924). Those who gazed upon her face would turn to stone. #MythologyMonday #Gorgon
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.
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#art 'Fairy Funeral' by Maximilian Pirner,1888
@tillymary 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!
FAIRIES & THE DEAD Evans Wentz (1911) recorded the Highland belief in #fairy hosts as the evil dead & Cornish Peskies as the souls of unbaptised babies, appearing at Twilight in the form of moths #FolkloreThursday #GothicFairies Images: Pirner 1888; Highgate; white plume moth
Maximilian Pirner (1853–1924) was a Czech painter. #Pirner's 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".