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Nach der Dantebarke Delacroix, 1921
After studying art at the Munich Academy and in Paris at the Académie Julian, he moved to Berlin and became involved with the Berlin Secession, meeting Corinth and Liebermann. His technique involved capturing rapid visual impressions of his subjects, the stage, the ballet and cabaret.
Slevogt was commissioned as a war artist, but, instead of producing a folio of morale raising propaganda, he produced a universal condemnation of war after returning from the front, which was condemned and censored by the authorities.
He produced a portfolio of twenty one lithographs, simply entitled Visions, from 1916-17. Instead of noble soldiery, upright and marching in militaristic fervour, these prints were populated by ghosts and spectres, people shooting themselves and animals enacting a macabre pantomime of battle horrors. Slevogt aimed with bitter accuracy, but his target was not the soldiers at the front, but the powers behind the war.
Original stamp signed etching with aquatint, 1921.
The image is inspired by Delacroix's The Barque of Dante.
Printed in a small edition of 200 for the German Expressionist portfolio Ganymed. Published by R. Piper & Co., Marées-Gesellschaft, Munich.
The image is inspired after Delacroix’s painting The Barque of Dante, 1822. A man stands in the background pondering the scene in front, maybe a memory or dream but the scene is one of Hell. The painting loosely depicts events narrated in canto eight of Dante’s Inferno; a leaden, smoky mist and the blazing City of the Dead form the backdrop against which the poet Dante fearfully endures his crossing of the River Styx. As his barque ploughs through waters heaving with tormented souls, Dante is steadied by Virgil, the learned poet of Classical antiquity.
Max Slevogt was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator, best known for his landscapes. He was, together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann, one of the foremost representatives in Germany of the plein air style.
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