Lenore | Frank Kirchbach | 1896 Size:24"x18" sometimes also named La Fortuna

sometimes also named La Fortuna

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16’’ x 20’’ Inches = 40

and human vulnerability

created in 1935 after Hieronymus Bosch

Lenore | Frank Kirchbach | 1896 Size:24"x18" sometimes also named La FortunaIn Lenore (1896), Kirchbach illustrates the haunting moment from Gottfried August Brgers famous ballad, where the dead lover returns to claim Lenore and carries her on a wild ride through the night. The ghostly rider urges his horse forward as Lenore, draped in white, collapses in terror across the saddle while they leap over a cemetery wall beneath a star filled sky. The barren landscape, distant churchyard, and skeletal trees heighten the macabre