Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005760The Nibelungen's End - The Death of Kriemhild
Inscriptions
Signed with monogram recto, lower left, in brush and brown wash: "JS" [encircled]; inscribed recto, lower center on mount, in pen and brown ink: "‘Der Nibelungen Ende:’ den Nilfsbedürftigen Bindern / in Gert"; lower right on mount, in pen and brown ink: "Julius Schnorr. / Dresden im Marz 1862"
Provenance
Sold, Christie’s, London, Oct. 11, 1995, lot 34, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection," June 11-Sept. 7, 1999. Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld / German, 1794-1874
- Date
- 1845
- Medium
- Graphite and brush and brown washes on tan laid paper, with added strip of tan wove paper at top (restoration), laid down on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 50.4 × 63.8 cm (19 7/8 × 25 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 62 × 68.5 cm (24 7/16 × 27 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1024
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