“Blood Memory”

48x36 in.

Oil on gallery canvas

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"Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven."

William Shakespeare

" And one idol lit up by that flash, seen fair and lovely on a dream-throne of silk and gold under a chryselephantine dome, is a shape of deathless grace not always given its due among groping mortals—the haughty, the unconquered, the mysterious, the luxurious, the Babylonian, the impersonal, the eternal companion of superiority and art—the type of perfect beauty and the brother of poetry—the bland, grave, competent, and patrician cat."

KRIEMHILD SEEKS REVENGE

Kriemhild is a major character of The Song of the Nibelungs, an epic poem based on pre-Christian Germanic heroic motifs, historic events and persons of the 5th and 6th centuries. For more than 13 years she seeks revenge for the murder of her beloved husband Siegfried, the dragon slayer and hero, and for the theft of The Treasure of the Nibelungs. Her time comes at the castle of King Etzel of the Huns (Attila). She stages an ambuscade and behaves mercilessly. In a bloodbath of several days' duration she orders the brutal death of the offenders and beheads the gang leaders by her own hand. Kriemhild is German mythos, both in negative and positive tenor, and she left in the German history, also as Gudrun/Gutrune (Old Norse for Kriemhild) in Richard Wagner's „Der Ring der Nibelungen“. The Song of the Nibelungs closes with the sentence: „At the end love bears always suffering.“

KRIEMHILD SINNT AUF RACHE

Kriemhild, zentrale Figur des Nibelungenlieds, sinnt über 13 Jahre auf Rache für den Mord an ihrem geliebten Ehemann Siegfried, dem Drachentöter und Helden, und für den Raub des Nibelungenschatzes. Am Hofe des Hunnenkönigs Etzel (Attila) kommt ihre Stunde, und Kriemhild zeigt sich gnadenlos gegenüber den Tätern von damals, die sie in einen Hinterhalt gelockt hat, lässt sie in einem mehrtägigen Blutbad reihenweise umbringen und schlägt den Rädelsführern sogar selbst die Köpfe ab. Kriemhild ist ein deutscher Mythos, gleichsam im Positiven wie Negativen, und hat in der deutschen Geschichte etliche Spuren hinterlassen, so auch in der Person der Gudrun (Altnordisch für Kriemhild) in Richard Wagners „Der Ring der Nibelungen“. Das Nibelungenlied schließt mit dem Satz: „Am Schluss gibt die Liebe immer Leid.“

In Norse Mythology Valhall (Old Norse: hall of the slain) is a majestic hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the god Odin. Valkyries choose the bravest dead men at the battlefield, called Einherjar, and lead them to Valhall. Here they prepare to aid Odin during the last eternal battle at the end of all times (Ragnarök).