Siegfried and Sieglinde - from Richard Wagner's 'Ring of the Nibelung'

 

Stephen de Hospodar

  1902 - 1959 (biography)

c. 1930  

blockprint 

4 7/8 x 5 15/16"  

pencil, lower right 

91 of 100  

pencil titled and editioned 

from the portfolio of 10 block prints "Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung in a series of blockprints by Stephen de Hospodar" 

antique-white Japanese laid 

published 

artist 

18418 

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“Ring of the Nibelung”, or “Der Ring des Nibelungen”, was a cycle of four epic operatic dramas composed by Richard Wagner (German, 1813 – 1883). Loosely based on ancient Norse lore, it is best known for the second movement, “Ride of the Valkyrie”. De Hospodar created a portfolio of ten blockprints to illustrate the opera, circa 1930.