Placard on the wall of artist Hugo Simberg's birth home in Hamina, Finland

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Hugo Gerhard Simberg (24 June 1873 – 12 July 1917) was a Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist. Simberg's paintings emphasize mainly macabre and supernatural topics. A good example is Kuolema kuuntelee (Death Listens), which depicts Death, personified as a skeleton wearing a black coat, listening with a bowed head as a young man plays the violin. In the background is an old woman lying on a bed, pale and apparently sickly. There is a suggestion that Death is there for the old woman, but that he is pausing so the young man, possibly the dying woman's son, can have time to finish his violin playing.

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Size: 5184px × 3456px
Location: Hamina, Finland
Photo credit: © Jani-Markus Häsä / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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