Death the Strangler – Alfred Rethel, 1851 T-Shirt
👕 Alfred Rethel’s 1851 engraving depicts Death 💀 as a skeletal fiddler 🎻 spreading plague and panic — a chilling vision of mortality and fear.
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👕 Created in 1851 by German artist Alfred Rethel, Death the Strangler is a haunting engraving that captures the terror and devastation of a cholera epidemic 💀. The skeletal figure of Death, cloaked and playing a sinister fiddle 🎻, moves through a scene of panic and despair.
🩸 People collapse lifelessly around him while others attempt to flee, their faces twisted in fear. Rethel’s detailed linework and dramatic composition evoke both medieval plague imagery ⚔️ and the Romantic fascination with mortality.
🖤 This artwork stands as a powerful allegory for the inescapable reach of death and the fragility of human life in the face of disease.
