Secessionist Artists 1919-1925 > Erzsébet von Esseö
Hungarian Soviet Republic
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Esseö, Elisabeth (Erzsébet) von. 1919
・SOVIETREPUBLIKA・HUNGARIA・III・VII・1919・ (Soviet Republic - Hungary - March - July 1919). Cast bronze, verdigris patina, 71.4 mm, 101.52 g. Vorzüglich (extremely fine). Very rare.
Obverse: Medusa head with pointed ears, bat wings, open mouth, and writhing tangle of serpents filling the entire field; title legend lower edge.
Reverse: Hanging-tree with a dozen victims spread across the upper half of the field, the trunk and roots anchored in a fissured stylization of the Hungarian arms; artist's monogram, encircled ligatured ƎE at lower left.
Cf: Huszár, Lajos, and Béla Procopius. 1932. Medaillen- und Plakettenkunst in Ungarn, p. 201: 1945; plate XXIX.
Cf: Attwood, P., and F. Powell. 2009. Medals of Dishonour, British Museum, p. 77, no. 19, (mistaken reading of III・VII・1919 for 3 July 1919: the Hungarian Soviet Republic lasted from March [III] - July [VII] 1919).
Reverse design loosely based on Jacques Callot's etching from Les Miseres et les Malheurs de la Guerre (aka "The Large Miseries"), 1633, plate 11.
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