Artwork Title: Self Portrait  with Love and Death

Self Portrait with Love and Death, 1875

Hans Thoma

...a direct reference to Self-portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle by his friend Arnold Böcklin in 1872. The message, however, has been clearly altered in Thoma’s work: the laurel wreath as an attribute of death raises the question of whether an artist’s fame can survive after... The painter portrays himself positioned between a small child and a skeleton, between life and death, but still with the certainty that ‘amor vincit omnia’—love conquers all. (http://www.i-am-here.eu/en/gallery.html)
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