Two days after the death of Egon Schiele in 1918, Gustinus Ambrosi, a young admiring sculptor, arrived at his coffin, opened it up, and made a mold of the man’s face. Though Ambrosi would ...
A bronze death mask of Egon Schiele from a mould produced by the Austrian artist Gustinus Ambrosi is to be sold in London on 23 October at Sloane Street Auctions. Schiele, a famed Expressionist ...
Ensor’s subsequent paintings of masquerades include his famous 1888 “Masks Mocking Death” (on loan to the K.M.S.K.A. from the Museum of Modern Art in New York) and his grotesque 1898 “The ...
A South African policewoman appeared in court Friday on allegations of murdering six people for insurance payouts worth at least 10 million rand ($570,000) in killings that started in 2019.
A major gas-mask manufacturer this week said it doesn’t want its products used in nitrogen-gas executions, days before Alabama planned to carry out the country’s second-ever execution using ...