Secessionist Artists - WWI 1914 -1918 > Erzsébet von Esseö 1883-1954

HORRIBILI ANNIS MCMXIV-XVI

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Haarmann:

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"

Nosferatu:
Wow, powerful!!!  I've never seen one of these before.  Must be pretty rare, huh?

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