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GERMAN SILK TAPESTRY RICHARD WAGNER
BEVO PROCESS SILK
EMBROIDERY OF
GERMANY’S MOST
RENOWNED
COMPOSER,
RICHARD WAGNER
Composer and musical dramatist Richard Wagner was certainly the greatest musical influence in the life of Germany’s Führer and Reichskanzler, Adolf Hitler, and by proxy enormously influential in the lives of every German and nearly every European during the Third Reich.
An early German Nationalist, Wagner was forced to flee his native Sachsen (Saxony) to exile in Switzerland, Italy and France as a result of his support for the idea of uniting many central European royal kingdoms into the single nation of Germany. He returned to Prussia in 1861 and later worked under the patronage of Bavarian King Ludwig II (Mad Ludwig). He married Cosima, the daughter of Franz List, 24 years his junior. They established the famous Festival House in Bayreuth and Haus Wahnfried nearby. Richard Wagner died in February 1883.
Not even his greatest enemies ever questioned the genius of Richard Wagner, who contributed so much to composing, conducting, literature, theater, the orchestra and even psychotherapy. His conviction (already in the mid 1800s) that Jews were a harmful and alien element in German culture and could never write “German” music earned Wagner many enemies among those seeking to emancipate German Jews at that time. Though he felt he was simply being realistic, Wagner’s enemies branded him anti-Semitic and even claimed that his music was anti-Jewish!
Hitler loved Wagner’s work and the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, thus giving critics of the long-dead Wagner even more reason to criticize him and to claim that he was a Jew. Protests have prevented his work from ever being performed in the country of Israel to this day.
The tapestry or embroidery we offer here is a very rare web-woven likeness of the composer made by the German firm of JÄGER, most likely during the Third Reich and it was probably sold to someone who attended the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth. The weaviong process by which this was made is commonly referred to as BEVO (for Bandfabrik Ewald Vorsteher, a Nazi insignia maker) today, and was a much used process during the Third Reich for manufacturing armbands, eagle and swastika insignia, pennents, collar tabs and other Nazi items.
It measures about 19 x 32 cm (7-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches) and is superby woven in black silk on an off-white background. The weaving is so fine and so well-done that from a distance of three feet the piece appears to be a photograph, reproducing every shade of grey between black and white! It is fine art intended to be mounted and framed behind glass. There is some staining which is most evident in the photo aove showing the back side. Very rare and in very good condition.
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This German silk embroidery of Richard Wagner is **SOLD**.
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