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    Franz Stassen (Hanau 1869 - Berlin 1949)

    Siegfrieds Leiche: The Funeral of Siegfried

    Description:

    chalks on coloured paper
    635 x 477 mm

    Provenance:

    Private collection, UK

    Note:

    In 1914 Franz Stassen completed a series of 120 designs to illustrate Richard Wagner’s four cycles of Der Ring des Nibelungen. The designs were lithographed and published, in the reverse sense, by Weise & Co. and Ludwig Schroeter, Berlin, in 1914-1930. At least three of these drawings were included in the publication: plate 1, Vorspiel; plate 9, Walhall; and plate 109, Siegfrieds Leiche.

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    Siegfrieds Leiche: The Funeral of Siegfried