Secessionist Medals

Secessionist Artists - WWI 1914 -1918 => Erzsébet von Esseö 1883-1954 => Topic started by: Haarmann on May 31, 2013, 04:43:56 PM

Title: HORRIBILI ANNIS MCMXIV-XVI
Post by: Haarmann on May 31, 2013, 04:43:56 PM

Elisabeth von Essoe, HORRIBILI ANNIS MCMXIV-XVI (The Years of Horror, 1914-16), 1916, Cast Iron, 67.5mm, wt.97.4g. UNC RRR.

A softly executed, but truly Expressionistic, early work of von Essoe.

Obverse:  Skeletal head of Death, right, in radiate crown with a serpent coiled around the neck.

Reverse:  Standing crowned figure, left, holding sword and shield.  Orb at right. Signature in exergue. "Si deus pro nobis, quis contra nos" = "If God is With Us, Who Can Be Against Us"
Title: Re: HORRIBILI ANNIS MCMXIV-XVI
Post by: Nosferatu on December 01, 2013, 01:43:25 PM
Wow, powerful!!!  I've never seen one of these before.  Must be pretty rare, huh?