Germany

Biblical scenes with dancer and flutist

Sculpture, relief

1000 approximately

GermanyHildesheim, Saint-Michel church        Triumphal culumn of Bernward, detail. Religion

Israel van Meckenem

Herodiad’s dance

Print, engraving, copper

1450 approximately

France, Paris, Musée du Petit-Palais     Work of the German school

Death dance (Totentanz)

Print, woodcut

1493

Germany religion

Michaël Wolgemut

Death dance (Totentanz)

Print 1493

Germany macabre religion

Hans Sebald Beham

Der verlorenene Sohn (The lost son)

Print, woodcut

1530 approximately

Germany court, ballroom religion

Dance around the Golden Calf

Painting, oil on canvas

1680 approximately

Germany popular religion, Bible

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

Terpsichore

Painting

1810 approximately

Antiquity, Germany, religion, divinity

H. Kruspe (drawing)

Der Erfurter Todtentanz (The Erfurt Death Dance – 1)

Print 1872

GreeceAthens, collection Alkis Raftis

GermanyErfurt macabre religion

Ludwig Mich. Schwanthaler

Die drei Grazien (The three Graces)

Sculpture, relief

1845 approximately

Antiquity, Germany, trio religion, divinity

H. Kruspe (drawing)

Der Erfurter Todtentanz (The Erfurt Death Dance – 2)

Print

1872

GreeceAthens, collection Alkis Raftis

Macabre religion

K. Dielitz (drawing)

Church festival dance – Kirdatanz – in Upper Bavaria

Print, woodcut

1879

GreeceAthens, collection Alkis Raftis

Hermann Lüders (drawing)

Dance of the chorus boys before the high altar of the Sevilla cathedral

Print, woodcut

1883

GreeceAthens, collection Alkis Raftis

Dancing dervishes

Dancing dervishes

Print, woodcut

1896

EgyptGermany

Paul Thumann

Wanderers in front of a cloister

Painting

1900 approximately

Hermann Neuhaus (painting)

Sylphs’ dance (Elfenreigen)

Print, woodcut

1902

GreeceAthens, collection Alkis Raftis

Emil Nolde

Tanz um das Goldene Kalb (Dance round the golden calf)

Painting, oil on canvas

1910

Ferdinand Leeke

Wood nymphs cavorting

Painting, oil on canvas

1912