Bruno Héroux (Leipzig 1868 - 1944 Leipzig)
"Und wenn der Teufel Hochzeit hält so lade ich mich zu Gaste"
["And When the Devil holds a Wedding, I Invite Myself to be his Guest"]
1940
red chalk and black pen
64,1 x 49,8 cm
signed and dated "Héroux [19]40" lower right and numbered "IV" upper left
captioned below:
"Und wenn der Teufel Hochzeit hält so lade ich mich zu Gaste
Ich Tanz mit Meister Klapperbein den Tingel den Tangel den Höllenreihn"
["And when the devil holds a wedding, I invite myself to be his guest.
I dance with Master Clapperleg, the tinkle, the tankle, the hellish round dance."]
The Daulton Collection
Preliminary study for the etching in the portfolio "Ein Totentanz" ["A Dance of Death"], in which Héroux divided the caption into three lines, but otherwise kept the depiction largely unchanged.
