Brunnhilde with Heart

2012

Not on view

As Schutz puts it, "Brünnhilde is a fascinating character, very powerful but conflicted. She takes the whole world down, as well as herself." One of the most important protagonists of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Brünnhilde is both a heroine who protects the unborn child of her half-brother in defiance of her father Wotan’s wishes and also one of the reasons for the twilight of the gods: immolating herself in the process, she causes Valhalla to burn. Schutz, who is acclaimed for powerfully painted and fantastical works that make use of a bright, almost Fauvist palette, drew Brünnhilde as part of a group of drawings she made for a commission honoring the Metropolitan Opera’s new productions of the Ring Cycle in 2011–12.

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Title: Brunnhilde with Heart
Artist: Dana Schutz (American, born Livonia, Michigan, 1976)
Date: 2012
Medium: Brush and ink and crayon on paper (recto) ; Brush and ink on paper (verso)
Dimensions: 30 1/16 × 22 7/16 in. (76.3 × 57 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins, 2016
Object Number: 2016.781a, b
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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