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  • NEW WORLDS – Ts'ung – Symbol der Erde

  • From angels and sirens to Pan and Flora, the god of the shepherds and the goddess of blossoms respectively: Hybrid beings traveling between heaven and earth have forever inspired artists over the centuries. In allegorical works, they descend to the people or up into the sky, taking on human form as messengers of the divine or directing the fate of the people down on earth. Hybrid beings stand for the connection between the cosmos and the earth, between youth and fertility, and between transience and death. Their close affinity to nature was the starting point for numerous pictorial creations, especially for symbolist artists such as Arnold Böcklin. But these motifs and their universal symbolism can also be found in expressionist works and in contemporary art as well.
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Works
Pan im Kinderreigen
Flora, Blumen streuend
Ts'ung (Symbol der Erde)
Engel, der Licht in die Gräber trägt
Gold Siren
Der Tod und das Mädchen