Lovely Gustav Herold 1800s Detailed Engraving “Nymph of the Lorelei” FRAMED COA$299.00
Lovely Gustav Herold 1800s Detailed Engraving “Nymph of the Lorelei” FRAMED COA
$299.00
Artist: Gustav Karl Martin Herold (Swiss,1839-1927)
Title: The Nymph of the Lorelei
Medium: Antique engraving on wove paper after the original Statue by master engraver H. C. Balding.
Year: 1869
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 4 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 14 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
The enchantress here is shown at a moment when her whole mind is is absorbed by listening to the strains of a German song which rises to her from the stream below; and she, the protectress ,or muse, of German poetry and melody, rejoices in the immortality of the legends and the songs of Rhine. -According to German legend, there was once a beautiful young maiden, named Lorelei, who threw herself headlong into the river in despair over a faithless lover. Upon her death she was transformed into a siren and could from that time on be heard singing on a rock along the Rhine River, near St. Goar. Her hypnotic music lured sailors to their death. The legend is based on an echoing rock with that name near Sankt Goarshausen, Germany.
Gustav Karl Martin Herold was a Swiss sculptor . A native from Switzerland Gustav Herold, son Frankfurter parents since 1854, graduated from a training in an ivory carving in Darmstadt . Subsequently Herold turned to sculpture but, since 1858, he attended the sculpture class of the Städel Institute in Frankfurt and from 1862 to 1866, the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He then lived alternately in Munich and Frankfurt, where he settled in 1872 definitively with its own studio down. In Munich Gustav Herold ivories created for King Ludwig II of Bavaria. , In Frankfurt numerous sculptures for public buildings, including the figures tragedy, comedy, dance for the local opera house , grave monuments and a number of portrait busts, including a bronze statuette Ernst Haeckel , His most famous work in Frankfurt, the Atlas group of figures on the entrance portal of the Frankfurt Main Station . Gustav Herold died in 1927 at the age of almost 88 years in Frankfurt. Currently (2016) the sculptor working Oskar Mahler and Nina Hunrn Pimenta Lima together on a monument to Herold which on Kaiserstraße in Frankfurt main station is to be installed. The monument consists of a sandstone facade Frankfurt Main Station and a patch on the stone bronze bust.
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