National Socialist Allegory of Music
A Third Reich era print by Richard Klein paying homage to the idea of music and its genius as an allegorical figure. The figure is sometimes attributed as being a representation of Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer.
The head, reminiscent of a Greco-Roman statuary, and the lyre is reinforces the timeless, revered and noble past of music stretching back to antiquity. Meanwhile, the wings and the celestial background conveys its immaterial, elevated and cosmic nature. Finally, the eagle and the swastika emblazons the abstract concept of musical authority as a legitimate expression of the Aryan cultural and spiritual ideal.
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A Third Reich era print by Richard Klein paying homage to the idea of music and its genius as an allegorical figure. The figure is sometimes attributed as being a representation of Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer.
The head, reminiscent of a Greco-Roman statuary, and the lyre is reinforces the timeless, revered and noble past of music stretching back to antiquity. Meanwhile, the wings and the celestial background conveys its immaterial, elevated and cosmic nature. Finally, the eagle and the swastika emblazons the abstract concept of musical authority as a legitimate expression of the Aryan cultural and spiritual ideal.
