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The Saviour of the World, 1938

  • woodcut, paper
  • 252 x 189 mm
  • Inv. 2002-L-29

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Artist

Frans Masereel RKD VIAF Wikidata
Blankenberge 1889 - Avignon 1972
woodcutters (printmakers)AAT

Title The Saviour of the World
Date 1938
Period 20th century
Medium and support woodcut AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings edition outside the depiction, bottom left: 26/27
signature and year bottom right, outside the depiction: Frans Masereel / 1938
monogram and year bottom right: FM 1938
Collection print room
Object type woodcut AAT
Inventory number 2002-L-29
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4914/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300189808 figures (representations) AAT
300117546 seascapes AAT
300055865 Symbolism (artistic concept) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 21D water (one of the four elements) Iconclass
25H23 sea (seascape) Iconclass
25H2322 sea Iconclass
26A clouds Iconclass
31A235 sitting figure Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
31D12 youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass
31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass
33A6 saving an endangered fellow man Iconclass
46C291 shipwreck Iconclass
46C2931 saving a person from drowning Iconclass
46C294 wreck ashore Iconclass
46C298 damage (to a ship) Iconclass
School / Style Expressionist (style) AAT
Modernist AAT
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