Hieronymus Hess, The Executioner (Scharfrichter)


























Date: 1839-41
Technique: Lithography

The dance of death made by H. Hess from the fresco-paintings on the cemetery wall of St. Johns church at Basel. Hess was forced to work primarily from watercolor reproductions of the images, as the wall in question had been destroyed in 1805.

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