Title

Witches, 1514, (1943).

Caption

Witches, 1514, (1943). There was strong interest in witchcraft in the German-speaking countries at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The "Malleus Maleficarum" (Hammer of Witches) was published in 1487. Drawing in the Albertina Museum, Vienna. From "Europäische Handzeichnungen", (Five Hundred Years of European Drawings), by Bernhard Degenhart. [Atlantis-Verlag Berlin, Zürich, 1943]

Date

1943

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F21_023

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

59,8Mb (3,4Mb) / 12,7in x 18,3in / 3819 x 5475 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany female women woman people German arts country candle candles naked nude art book skull death Renaissance location century magic drawing brush literature lady concept witch witches B&W 1940s nudity MONOCHROME spell spells witchcraft nakedness Forties black & white black and white B W 16th century 20th century sixteenth century The Print Collector decade Hans Baldung Hans Baldung Grien Hans Baldung Grun Grien Hans Baldung Grun Hans Baldung Baldung Hans Europaische Handzeichnungen Europäische Handzeichnungen Bernhard Degenhart Degenhart Bernhard Baldung Grien Grien Baldung Baldung Grien Hans Witches of Freiburg