Brünnhilde in Twilight of the Gods
Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
38 × 29.2 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of William Mathewson Milliken, in memory of H. Oothout Milliken
Accession Number
1945.389
Tags
male
About this artwork
This print shows Odilon Redon’s passion for the music of 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner. Brünnhilde is a main character in the final chapter of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung, an epic four-part operatic piece composed over several decades. Created after Redon’s extensive experimentation with and mastery of lithography, the print reveals the medium’s similarity to drawing in the range of marks used to sketch its subject. Redon delicately outlined flowers in the background and cros...