Kurt Seligmann

(1900 - 1962)

 

Kurt Leopold Seligmann was a Swiss-American Surrealist painter, engraver, and occultist He was known for his fantastic imagery of medieval troubadors and knights in macabre rituals and inspired by the carnival held annually in his native Basel, Switzerland. He was extremely influential within the Surrealist movement in Paris and particularly in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Seligmann

Vanity of the Ancestors

1940–43.

Oil on panel,

124,4 x 149,8 cm

Private Collection