‘Kriemhild with the Head of Gunther,’ by William Brown Macdougall (original) (raw)

'Kriemhild with the head of Gunther’

William Brown Macdougall

1897

Wood engraving

8½ x 5½ inches

The Fall of the Nibelungs, frontispiece.

Another piece of art-work fusing the aesthetics of Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau, with the dense, compressed field in the panel contrasting with the looser flow of the tendrils in the border.

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