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One year after his departure from the Wiener Werkstätte, Carl Otto Czeschka designed and illustrated poet Franz Keim’s Die Nibelungen, an abridged version of a 13th-century epic poem about loyalty, betrayal, and revenge. Patterned borders, decorative motifs of swirls, flora, and fauna, and a series of line block vignettes accompany Keim’s text set in Eckmann, a typeface reminiscent of medieval calligraphy developed in 1900 by Otto Eckmann. Eight double-page color lithographs, featuring a scheme of saturated black and blue with red and gold accents, illustrate the fundamental scenes of the narrative.
Adapted from
Samantha Robinson, “Modern Opulence in Vienna: The Wittgenstein Vitrine” label copy, 2014.
NOTES
I updated Provenance, Exhibition History, and Bibliography in TMS.
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This color lithograph, which depicts the unification of Siegfried and Gunther in the face of the Saxon invasion, features figures cloaked in ornament and positioned in profile, similar to the caryatids on the Wittgenstein Vitrine (2013.31.A-E.McD).
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Witt-Dörring, Christian and Paul Asenbaum. "Vienna, Art & Design: Klimt Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos." Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2011. Illustrated: pp. 204-205.
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Place of origin: Vienna (Austria): TGN: 7003321
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- Museum of Modern Art ~ Explore an interactive page-turning animation of the second edition of Die Nibelungen designed and illustrated by Carl Otto Czeschka.
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General Description
One year after his departure from the Wiener Werkstätte, Carl Otto Czeschka designed and illustrated poet Franz Keim’s Die Nibelungen, an abridged version of a 13th-century epic poem about loyalty, betrayal, and revenge. Patterned borders, decorative motifs of swirls, flora, and fauna, and a series of line block vignettes accompany Keim’s text set in Eckmann, a typeface reminiscent of medieval calligraphy developed in 1900 by Otto Eckmann. Eight double-page color lithographs, featuring a scheme of saturated black and blue with red and gold accents, illustrate the fundamental scenes of the narrative.
Adapted from
Samantha Robinson, “Modern Opulence in Vienna: The Wittgenstein Vitrine” label copy, 2014.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Museum of Modern Art ~ Explore an interactive page-turning animation of the second edition of Die Nibelungen designed and illustrated by Carl Otto Czeschka.
Notes
I updated Provenance, Exhibition History, and Bibliography in TMS.
Online viewers will see all together, not this specific one:
This color lithograph, which depicts the unification of Siegfried and Gunther in the face of the Saxon invasion, features figures cloaked in ornament and positioned in profile, similar to the caryatids on the Wittgenstein Vitrine (2013.31.A-E.McD).
Checked Piction
Published Reference:
Witt-Dörring, Christian and Paul Asenbaum. "Vienna, Art & Design: Klimt Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos." Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2011. Illustrated: pp. 204-205.
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Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Place of origin: Vienna (Austria): TGN: 7003321
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