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Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch (December 9, 1779 – June 11, 1857) was a German painter, draughtsman, and etcher. Retzsch was born in the Saxon capital Dresden . He joined the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1798 under Cajetan Toscani and Józef Grassi , later working autodidactically, copying the famous pictures of the Gemäldegalerie ...
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Death playing chess (in Swedish: Döden spelar schack) is a monumental painting in Täby Church located just outside Stockholm, Sweden. It was painted around 1480–1490, by the Swedish medieval painter Albertus Pictor. [1] The painting depicts a man and a skeleton at a chessboard.
Steve Erwin was born on January 16, 1960. [2] He studied commercial art at Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee. [1] He credited Neal Adams' Batman stories and Gene Colan's and Tom Palmer's work on Daredevil as having "won my heart in junior high to aspiring (dreaming) to be a comic book artist."
Checkmate is a 1935 British crime film directed by George Pearson and starring Maurice Evans, Felix Aylmer and Evelyn Foster. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was written by Basil Mason based on a novel by Amy Kennedy Gould.
Checkmate (German: Schachmatt) is a 1931 German drama film directed by Georg Asagaroff and starring Gerda Maurus, Hans Rehmann, and Trude Berliner. [ 1 ] The film's sets were designed by the art director Alexander Ferenczy .
The first edition of The Royal Game. Following the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, the country's monarchists (i.e. supporters of Otto von Habsburg as the rightful Emperor-Archduke and the rule of the House of Habsburg), conservatives as well as supporters of Engelbert Dollfuss' Austrofascist regime, were severely persecuted by the Nazis, as they were seen as opponents of ...
A chamber play is a play of usually three acts which can be performed with a small cast and practically no sets or costumes in a small space. The form became popular in the early 20th century, with leading exponents being Max Reinhardt and August Strindberg . [ 1 ]