'Ghost Room'

Hallowe'en 1897

'Memory'. Elihu Vedder. 1870.

Arik Brauer (Austrian, 1929-2021)

Mein Vater im Winter (My Father in Winter), 1983

Charles Lipka was a significant representative of the Vienna School of fantastic realism (core group: Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden; wider circle: Fritz Aigner, Herbert Benedikt, Emmy Cero-Friedl, Robert Ederer, Helmut Heuberger, Fritz Janschka, Peter Klitsch, Anton Krejcar, Helmut Leherb, Franz Luby, Richard Matouschek, Franz Radziwill, Kurt Regschek, Ludwig Schwarzer, Gerhard Swoboda; “second generation”: Franz Bayer, Josef Bramer, Michael Coudenhove-Kalergi, Manfred Ebster, Roman Haller, Ernst Handl, Axel Litschke, Peter Proksch, Norbert Steffek, Franz Stierschneider, De Es Schwertberger; the Vienna School also has close relationships with Friedensreich Hundertwasser). One of Lipka's students was Rudolf Schönwald. Further artists and styles: HR Giger, M.C. Escher, Surrealism, Futurism, Lithography, Romanticism, Horror

Splendor Solis oder Sonnen Glantz, Veröffentlichung, Hallescher Verl., c. 1582, Bibliothek des Germanischen Nationalmuseums

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The Dog Star Sirius. Aratus's poem Phaenomena by Germanicus Caesar, 9th century, Leiden University Library (Netherlands)

"Such a guardian, the Dog, will be present with a fearsome mouth; From its mouth it vomits flame, its limbs defying the fire. The Greeks call this one 'Sirion' by its own name; When it touches the rays of the sun, the summer heat is kindled."

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Shigeo Otake (Japanese, 1955) - Cordyceps Masquerade (1997)

Jerusalem, Plate 14, "One hair nor particle of dust...." by William Blake (1757–1827)

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Thanos Vovolis, Mask of Dionysus

Lil Dagover and Conrad Veidt in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)