Sunday, October 29, 2017

Poster for Fritz Lang film Totentanz, or The Dance of Death, Josef Fenneker, 1919

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Graveside-Companion-Joanna-Ebenstein/dp/0500519714/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Poster for the lost Fritz Lang film Totentanz, or The Dance of Death, 1919. The film tells the tale of a beautiful dancer who is “used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths.” The idea of the Dance of Death stretches back to the middle ages, but continues to have relevance and fascination today.

Find out more about this--and over 1,000 other works at the intersections of art and death--in the new book Death: A Graveside Companion by our founder Joanna Ebenstein. You can find out more--and order a copy of your own!--here.

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