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"Murder in the house" as misbehaviour : Jakub Schikaneder, art criticism and audience

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2011

Abstract

The article discusses the large-size painting from 1890 had a strong impact on the audiences of Prague and Berlin. Schikaneder's visualisation of the issue and, specifically, the depiction of a dead female body are compared with some similar cases in paintings of the previous time.