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Sword
| Nothung (literally, "needful") is the powerful sword thrust into an ash tree by Wotan, chief of the gods, in the second opera of Richard Wagner's four-opera cycle "The Ring of the Nibelung." Instead of the ash tree, Kiefer has placed the sword on a cliff in a Norwegian fjord lit by the midnight sun. |
My Father Pledged Me a Sword
"Ein Schwert Verhiess mir der Vater"
1975. Watercolor, gouache, and ballpoint pen on paper
12 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (32.1 x 24.1 cm)
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift , 1995
1995.14.15
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