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Vanitas-Symbolik by Carl Muller-Baumgarten

Vanitas-Symbolik by Carl Muller-Baumgarten

Vanitas-Symbolik

Carl Muller-Baumgarten

Title

Vanitas-Symbolik

 
Artist

Carl Muller-Baumgarten

  1879 - 1946 (biography)
Year
c. 1900  
Technique
etching 
Image Size
6 1/4 x 9 3/8" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
not stated 
Annotations
Wer war der Tor, wer Weiser, wet Bettler oder Kaiser? in plate as banner above the skulls; stamped verso B. Koestler / Munchen 
Reference
Thieme-Becker XXV, 1931, 24. 
Paper
heavy cream wove paper 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
22064 
Price
SOLD
Description

Carl Muller-Baumgarten depicts four skulls with the attributes of a fool's cap, globe, telescope, books, bag and staff and crown with the question: "Who was the gate, who wise, who a beggar or emperor?"

Once we humans have lost our flesh there is no way to tell one's life station, we are all equal, what we were is of no difference.