Images from Re-(en)visioning Salome: The Salomes of Hedwig Lachmann, Marcus Behmer, and Richard Strauss by Norma Chapple.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Marcus Behmer's Salome
For a while now I've been a fan of Aubrey Beardsley, and that developed into a liking of Salome, probably his most famous set of illustrations. So of course I end up devouring as much Salome-related artwork as possible. Imagine my delight when I happened across a set of illustrations for a 1903 German translation of Wilde's play. The artwork clearly is inspired by Beardsley's work, but where Beardsley's art was positively dripping in Orientalism, Behmer's illustrations are indebted to Germanic folklore.
Images from Re-(en)visioning Salome: The Salomes of Hedwig Lachmann, Marcus Behmer, and Richard Strauss by Norma Chapple.
Images from Re-(en)visioning Salome: The Salomes of Hedwig Lachmann, Marcus Behmer, and Richard Strauss by Norma Chapple.
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