KRIEMHILD IS DANCING Painting

KRIEMHILD IS DANCING 150 x 120 x 4,5 cm acrylic and oil on canvas 2018 Kriemhild is a major character of The Song of the Nibelungs, an epic poem based on pre-Christian Germanic heroic motifs, historic events and persons of the 5th and 6th centuries. For more than 13 years Kriemhild seeks revenge for the murder of her beloved husband Siegfried, the dragon slayer and hero, and for the theft of The Treasure of the Nibelungs. Her time comes at the castle of King Etzel of the Huns (Attila). She stages an ambuscade and behaves mercilessly. In a bloodbath of several days' duration she orders the brutal death of the offenders and beheads the gang leaders by her own hand. Kriemhild is German mythos, both in negative and positive tenor, and she left in the German history, also as Gudrun/Gutrune (Old Norse for Kriemhild) in Richard Wagner's "Der Ring der Nibelungen“. The Song of the Nibelungs closes with the sentence: "At the end love bears always suffering.“ * * * * This painting is a part of a new FIGURATIVE SERIES that complements the current artistic style of my large sized paintings. About the background of this series: I opened my world of painting and as a painter by drawing and sketching, and from the beginning till this day the figurative element plays a prominent role in my graphical works on paper. The figurative perspective was and still is my basement and the starting point for all of my expressive stylizations and abstractions. But I had the feeling that my drawn figures grow out of the small paper format and that they have something more to say. That’s the reason why I have started a new figurative series and transfer my graphical, figurative projection to the large sized canvas. I want more than just a profane copy of a drawing. It has to be a new challenge and a reorientation in form and content. From time to time I add some lyrical words, a poem or written message and confront these sentences with my figures on the canvas. Harmony or confrontation, everything is possible and it’s an exciting and very intuitive process somewhere between different contemporary painting genres. * * * * This piece is a true LARGE-SIZED PAINTING. For a large-scale, aesthetic and colourful impression on your wall AND as my authentic and personal artwork with an artistic subsurface message. I use exclusively oil and acrylic colours, canvas and wooden frames in a professional museum quality. The painting wears my signature on the front and is signed, entitled and dated on the backside. Deliberately the XL-sides (about 4,5 cm wide) are not part of the painting and show the black painted canvas. The painting is ready to hang (on the backside: high-quality iron plates with metal inserts and nylon rope for gallery use), unframed and doesn’t need a frame or any additional surface treatment. The piece will be safely shipped in a custom wooden crate. It will be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and a cover letter as an additional part of the artwork. Please note: In context pictures are not necessarily to scale and are for illustrative purposes only. If you have any questions about this painting or any other piece, feel free to contact me and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks so much for taking an interest in my work. Warm wishes, Christian

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:47.2 W x 59.1 H x 1.8 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.