Need to find the name of this painting

wes27 · February 3rd, 2011, 08:55 AM

Hi all,

I would be very much obliged if anybody could name the painting (and the painter) of the image attached. I know only that the painting in question is housed in the National Gallery of Prague. Google has not been my friend on this occasion.

Many thanks.

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August 24th, 2011, 06:19 PM

Artist Name: Emil Jan Lauffer (1837-1909)
Painting: Kriemhild's Accusation 1879

"paintings come from the permanent art displayed in the St. George's Convent on the grounds of the Prague Castle(in Prague). All of the art contained within that gallery is national art from the 19th century"

"The texts ... (below) post come from the signs that accompanied... painting(from the Prague Castle)."

""Nibelungenlied fascinated many German Romanticists, and in the second half of the 19th century also the Prague painter Emil Lauffer. His is an epic composition, three meters long, the scene taken from Chapter XVII of the epic, in which Kriemhild accuses Gunther and Hagen of having murdered her husband Siegfried, incited by the jealous Brunhild. Stricken by grief Kriemhild calls upon the heavens for judgment, leaving the dead body of her husband, where it fell, so as to reveal, in accordance with ancient custom, the murderers by a stream of blood, which would once more gush out at their presence. Lauffer's painting is based on a picture of the same scene painted in 1835 by Carl Rahl, but reversed as a mirror reflection."

Source:
http://billysbraindrain.blogspot.com...t-tuesday.html

Hope that helps (:

February 3rd, 2011, 08:55 AM	#1
wes27 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 1	Need to find the name of this painting Hi all, I would be very much obliged if anybody could name the painting (and the painter) of the image attached. I know only that the painting in question is housed in the National Gallery of Prague. Google has not been my friend on this occasion. Many thanks.

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August 24th, 2011, 06:19 PM	#2
Unregistered Posts: n/a	Artist Name: Emil Jan Lauffer (1837-1909) Painting: Kriemhild's Accusation 1879 "paintings come from the permanent art displayed in the St. George's Convent on the grounds of the Prague Castle(in Prague). All of the art contained within that gallery is national art from the 19th century" "The texts ... (below) post come from the signs that accompanied... painting(from the Prague Castle)." ""Nibelungenlied fascinated many German Romanticists, and in the second half of the 19th century also the Prague painter Emil Lauffer. His is an epic composition, three meters long, the scene taken from Chapter XVII of the epic, in which Kriemhild accuses Gunther and Hagen of having murdered her husband Siegfried, incited by the jealous Brunhild. Stricken by grief Kriemhild calls upon the heavens for judgment, leaving the dead body of her husband, where it fell, so as to reveal, in accordance with ancient custom, the murderers by a stream of blood, which would once more gush out at their presence. Lauffer's painting is based on a picture of the same scene painted in 1835 by Carl Rahl, but reversed as a mirror reflection." Source: http://billysbraindrain.blogspot.com...t-tuesday.html Hope that helps (: