Woman and/as Death

Death of the Beautiful Woman

OpheliaJohn Everett Millais, 1852

Ophelia in the ThistlesGeorges Clairin, 1890s

Tamara Lying in StateMikhail Vrubel, 1891

The Drowned GirlJakub Schikaneder, 1895

Spring EveningJan Preisler, 1898

Dead MotherMax Klinger, 1898

Dead Mother and ChildEdvard Munch, 1899

OpheliaPaul Albert Steck, c. 1900

The Girl and Death: An Old SongAugust Brömse, 1902

The DreamFerdinand Hodler, 1903

Dead GirlJakub Schikaneder, 1910

Advertisement for Film Based on Przybyszewski’s Abyss, 1910

The Cup of DeathElihu Vedder, 1895/1911

Woman as Death

Dancing DeathFélicien Rops, 1865

OrpheusGustave Moreau, 1865

Proserpine Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874

Woman: Three StagesEdvard Munch, 1894

The Death of the GravediggerCarlos Schwabe, 1895

ThanatosJacek Malczewski, 1898

MadonnaEdvard Munch, 1902

The Hostile PowersGustav Klimt, 1902

Hope IGustav Klimt, 1903

Six-Winged Seraph (Azrael, Angel of Death)Mikhail Vrubel, 1904

Pregnant Woman and DeathEgon Schiele, 1911

Dead Mother IIEgon Schiele, 1911

Death and LifeGustav Klimt, 1916

Sexuality and Death

Lady Death, or Mors sifiliticaFélicien Rops, 1866

The ApparitionGustave Moreau, 1876

BrutishnessAlfred Kubin, 1885

Tristan and IsoldeJean Delville, 1887

The WayfarerGustave Moreau, 1887

The Idol of PerversityJean Delville, 1891

SensualityFranz von Stuck, 1891

SinFranz von Stuck, 1893

Dancer’s RewardAubrey Beardsley, 1893

The KissAubrey Beardsley, 1893

Death and the MaidenEdvard Munch, 1893

Death and SensualityGeorges Lacombe, 1893

The Sea-MaidensHerbert Draper, 1894

VampireEdvard Munch, 1894

The Kiss of the SphinxFranz von Stuck, 1895

SphinxFranz von Stuck, 1895

Art, The Sphinx, or The CaressesFernand Khnopff, 1896

Agony (Tristan and Isolde)George Minne, 1896

The KissEdvard Munch, 1897

The Confluence of SoulsMax Švabinský, c. 1897

The Alcoholic’s Dream František Kupka, after 1900

The Road to HellAlfred Kubin, 1900

Earth, Mother of Us AllAlfred Kubin, 1900-01

The Death PlungeAlfred Kubin, c. 1902

Human FateAlfred Kubin, 1903

Femme FataleKees Van Dongen, 1905