{"id":15190,"date":"2014-04-30T02:18:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15190"},"modified":"2014-04-30T02:18:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T01:18:08","slug":"walpurgisnacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/04\/30\/walpurgisnacht\/","title":{"rendered":"Walpurgisnacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anno.onb.ac.at\/cgi-content\/anno?aid=mus&amp;datum=19170426&amp;seite=6&amp;zoom=33\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"walpurgisnacht.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/walpurgisnacht.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Walpurgisnacht (1917) by Amadeus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>April 30th gives me an opportunity to repost this drawing by &#8220;Amadeus&#8221; which could easily have come from an underground magazine of the late 60s. The works below are some of the many Faust-related illustrations at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goethezeitportal.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">GoetheZeitPortal<\/a>, a great resource although it helps if you can read a little German to navigate. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goethezeitportal.de\/wissen\/topographische-ansichten\/orte-kultureller-erinnerung-brocken-harz-folge-iii-hexentanz-walpurgisnacht.html\" target=\"_blank\">This page<\/a> has more Hexentanz scenes, while the complete series of Franz Xaver Simm&#8217;s academic illustrations may be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goethezeitportal.de\/index.php?id=6603\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/50watts.com\/Happy-Walpurgisnacht\" target=\"_blank\">50 Watts<\/a> there&#8217;s Stefan Eggeler&#8217;s illustrations for Gustav Meyrink&#8217;s <em>Walpurgisnacht<\/em> (1917).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goethezeitportal.de\/fileadmin\/Images\/wd\/topographische_ansichten\/brocken\/brocken_3\/Welti_Walpurgisnacht__800x1114_.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"walpurgisnacht3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/walpurgisnacht3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Walpurgisnacht (1897) by Albert Welti.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goethezeitportal.de\/fileadmin\/Images\/db\/wiss\/goethe\/simm_faust\/77_Simm_Walpurgisnacht__800x1198_.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"walpurgisnacht2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/walpurgisnacht2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Walpurgisnacht (1899) by Franz Xaver Simm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/30\/the-art-of-luis-ricardo-falero-1851-1896\/\">The art of Luis Ricardo Falero, 1851\u20131896<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/07\/25\/weel-done-cutty-sark\/\">Weel done, Cutty-sark!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walpurgisnacht (1917) by Amadeus. April 30th gives me an opportunity to repost this drawing by &#8220;Amadeus&#8221; which could easily have come from an underground magazine of the late 60s. The works below are some of the many Faust-related illustrations at GoetheZeitPortal, a great resource although it helps if you can read a little German to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/04\/30\/walpurgisnacht\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Walpurgisnacht&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,16],"tags":[2329,6028,6026,655,358,6027],"class_list":["post-15190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-occult","tag-50-watts","tag-albert-welti","tag-franz-xaver-simm","tag-goethe","tag-gustav-meyrink","tag-stefan-eggeler"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3X0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}