Brünnhilde in Twilight of the Gods
1894
- Medium
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- 38 × 29.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192829
This print shows Odilon Redon’s passion for the music of 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner. Brünnhilde is a main character in the final chapter of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung, an epic four-part operatic piece composed over several decades. Created after Redon’s extensive experimentation with and mastery of lithography, the print reveals the medium’s similarity to drawing in the range of marks used to sketch its subject. Redon delicately outlined flowers in the background and crosshatched to highlight Brünnhilde’s face before turning his crayon on its side to darken her hair an…
Provenance
Oothout Milliken, 1945.389
Registry history
- 1894 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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