fantastic Jacques Roubille illustration of Les Fleurs du Mal
thanks to aucarrefouretrange & les-retrogaleries-de-gutsy
more illustrations at lesretrogaleriesdemistergutsy and some more Baudelaire here
Scene from Mary Wigman’s Totentanz,1926 by Ursula Richter
Cover art by Rein van Looij for Dutch edition of The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
via ʇʞǝظqo ʇıqqɐɹ ǝʇıɥʍ, info from uk vintage
Danse Macabre,1938 directed by Xanti Schawinsky
via Artes Magazine
Tango Mortale by Jens Rusch
[from his Totentanz portfolio]
And even if the wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death. Kurt Vonnegut
[do read Slaughterhouse-Five if you haven’t by now]
Feuersturm/Firestorm, c.1945-46 [bit different print here]
negative montage by Edmund Kesting from his Dresdner Totentanz portfolio
via findartinfo
La Vie by Jan Frans De Boever *
one more from Narre Tod, Mein Spielgesell/Fool Death, My Playmate Portfolio, c.1922
[9th out of 10;] by Franz Fiedler
from apfelauge
“what is to be
will be”
Ex Libris by Enrico Vannuccini
from the collection of Richard Sica courtesy of AJRMS
theshipthatflew:Anonymous, Dance of Death, 16th century, Germany, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown ink, watercolor and gouache, with touches of gold, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Scene from Ernst Toller’s Transformation [also translated as Transfiguration], Berlin,1919
Ein Totentanz /Dance of Death, 1918 by Alfred Kubin *
via NCMA
Le Palais des mille et une nuits,1905 by Georges Méliès