Skeleton - 150 Leaves, Karl Wiener Art Print
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In Skeleton, a 1944 leaf of Die 150 Blätter, Karl Wiener rubs a ashen black ground across the paper. One body is left unburied.
The skull grins wide. Bone-ivory cheekbones flare under two sockets packed with graphite soot, and neck vertebrae sink into a tallow-yellow smock. Its hem hangs in sawtooth rags. Wiener hatches the cloth fast, then lets an indigo-black ground flood between the tatters.
He is dressed for Fasching. The jaw drops open on a row of crooked teeth. Above it sit two wet-slate orbits that take in the whole street.
Now look at the left cuff. A jester’s bauble pokes out of it, a round knob on a short stick, the fool’s scepter handed to a new owner. Opposite, a bony hand opens its pewter fingers in a showman’s salute.
Wiener’s father read proofs for the Social Democratic press in Graz, and the son was teaching in Vienna as the Second World War closed over the city. His vanitas keeps its carnival teeth. For anyone hunting macabre wall art with an archive behind it, this Wien Museum estate drawing arrives laughing, and the laugh has outlived the Reich.
Origin Story
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Framed Art Prints
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
Hang the two sawtooth hangers on two screws or nails at the same heightPut two screws or nails in the wall at the same height, spaced the same distance apart as the two sawtooth hangers, then hang your print on them.
Framed Canvas
1. D-rings (most secure)
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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Printed after you purchase at print labs across the USA, UK, EU & AUS. Produced, quality checked, packed with care and handed to trusted shipping carriers within 72-96 hours on average.
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