Flying Devil - Rudolf von Seitz Art Print
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A fat devil has kicked off from a chimney, and the village below has no idea. Flying Devil catches him mid-launch from underneath, his belly a flesh-toned moon hung over rust red roof tiles.
Rudolf von Seitz painted ceilings and a church apse in Munich, and Flying Devil borrows their trick. Tilt your head back. The cherub of every Rococo vault has gone to seed. He is a bearded putto now, horned and hairy to the knees, and he steers through wind by a fistful of his own tail.
The Munich painter built his flying devil as a pen and ink drawing first. Short curls of lampblack cross-hatching sprout over chest and thigh, a pelt grown one hair at a time in the manner of a German Renaissance woodcut. Watercolor wash came second, moss green soaking the bat wings until they sag with weather. A coiled ram’s horn sits above his pointed ear. He glances down, smug.
Old devil folklore kept the chimney as his private door, the sooty way out of a sleeping house. Seitz, a fixture of 19th-century German art, turns that fear into caricature: a grotesque too well fed to scare the neighbors. Slate gray cloud rakes the sky. Beneath that dangling foot a whitewashed gable keeps two windows shut. Under his claws the rooftops hold still, and the storm has a landlord now.
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1. Vertical
Use the sawtooth hanger at the top middle on the back of the frame and hang it on a single screw or nail.
2. Horizontal
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Screw a D-ring onto the back of the frame on the left and right, both at the same height. A ruler helps here. Then put two screws in the wall where you want your canvas, level with each other and spaced the same distance apart as the D-rings. A spirit level makes this easier. Finally, hook the D-rings onto the screws.
2. Straight onto screws
Keep it simple: put two screws in the wall at the same height and rest the inner lip at the top of the back of the frame on them.
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