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Plaquette
Gosen, Theodor von, born 1873 - died 1943 - Enlarge image
Plaquette
- Place of origin:
Germany (made)
- Date:
1914 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Gosen, Theodor von, born 1873 - died 1943 (medallists)
- Materials and Techniques:
Bronze
- Museum number:
A.129-1920
- Gallery location:
In Storage
This plaquette, one of four plaquettes (127 to 130-1920) representing the riders of the Apocalypse, was made by Theodor von Gosen in Germany, 1914. The Apocalypse was already a subject widespread in European art in about 1900, and was common in German expressionist art by 1914. One of the sources here is probably Dürer's engraving of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The form of the inscription of the reverse is based on those seen on German Renaissance medals. The rider in this plaquette represents the scourages of human kind: war, death, famine, and destruction.