Ferdinand Staeger

The Power of Music,

1908,

ink and pencil on paper

 

Ferdinand Staeger (1880-1976)

"The Power of Music" ("Die Macht der Töne"), also known as "Death Weeping," also known as "Cellist and Death on Biedermeier Sofa," also known as "Musik"

1908

ink and pencil on paper

33,2 x 47,2 cm (sheet)

signed in pencil lower right: "F. Staeger"


Publication History:


The Studio (London), 1914


Hans H. Hofstaetter, Symbolismus und die Kunst der Jahrhundertwende (Köln: Du Mont Schauberg, 1965), pg. 77.


Herbert Wessely, ed., Ferdinand Staeger, Mystischer Realismus (Langen Müller, 1975), pg. 64, as "Musik."

 


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