Tag: faust

A Gothic visual dialogue

Film still from The Sorrows of Satan (D.W. Griffith, 1926), starring Adolphe Menjou, Carol Dempster, Ricardo Cortez and Lya de Putti
The screenplay was based on the Victorian gothic novel by Marie Corelli (1895)

Watch the film on YouTube ~ link to this scene : here

Nevertheless, our favorite scene takes place a few minutes before during the night in Geoffrey’s ominous mansion. Geoffrey’s wife, an exotic Russian princess in exile (Lya de Putti) confess Prince Lucio that she married Geoffrey only to be near him (Satan). Geoffrey awakens and creeps down the stairs to find his wife throwing herself at Lucio’s feet. It’s a suspenseful sequence with shadowy shots of the mansion that looks menacing. Link to scene

Read the novel on Project Gutenberg : The Sorrows of Satan or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire, A Romance : eBook

Cover design for Bela Lugosi’s Dead, the first single by the English post-punk band Bauhaus, released on 6 August 1979
It is often considered the first gothic rock record

Listen to «Bela Lugosi’s Dead» on Bauhaus Official YouTube channel

Gertrud Strehlewitz

Hugo Erfurth :: Gertrud Strehlewitz. Kgl. S. Hofschauspielerin als “Gretchen”, um 1915. Verso in Tusche bezeichnet “Gertrud Strelewitz. Gretchen. Faust I.” Ungelaufene Fotokarte. | src liveauctioneers

Elsa and Berta Wiesenthal, 1908

Hugo Erfurth :: Else und Berta Wiesenthal (Faustwalzer). 1908.
Silver gelatine print auf mattem, fein strukturiertem Papier. Kleine Retuschierungen in der Platte. Späterer Abzug von 1916. Mit einbelichtetem Atelierstempel u.li. “ERFVRTH DRESDEN” sowie u.re. mit Blindstempel “Hugo Erfurth Dresden 1916”.
Vom vorliegenden Motiv existiert auch eine Postkarte aus dem Jahr 1908 (Deutsches Tanzarchiv, Köln).
Abgebildet in: Hermann und Marianne Aubel: Der künstlerische Tanz unserer Zeit. Leipzig 1928. Abb. S. 5. | src Schmidt Kunstauktionen

Hugo Erfurth :: Else and Berta Wiesenthal (Faust Waltz). 1908.
Silver gelatin print on matte, finely structured paper. Small retouching in the plate. Later print from 1916. With exposed studio stamp below left. “ERFVRTH DRESDEN” and below right. with blind stamp “Hugo Erfurth Dresden 1916”.
There is also a postcard of the present motif from 1908 (Deutsches Tanzarchiv, Cologne).
Shown in: Hermann and Marianne Aubel: The artistic dance of our time. Leipzig 1928. Fig. P. 5. | src Schmidt Kunstauktionen
Hugo Erfurth :: Elsa and Berta Wiesenthal in Faustwalzer (von Hugo Erfurth). Vintage postcard. | sr art·galerie

Renee Strobawa als Gretchen

Freiherr Wolff von Gudenberg :: Renee Strobawa (eigentlich: Renate Stobrawa) als Gretchen in ‘Faust I’ bei den Salzburger Festspielen, undatiert, vermutlich 1932, veröffentlicht: BZ 23-06-1932. | Renee Strobawa (born Renate Stobrawa) as Gretchen in ‘Faust I’ at the Salzburg Festival, undated, probably 1932, published in 1932: BIZ 23-06-1932. | src and hi-res Getty Images

Renee Strobawa as Gretchen

Freiherr Wolff von Gudenberg :: Renee Strobawa (eigentlich: Renate Stobrawa) als Gretchen in ‘Faust I’ bei den Salzburger Festspielen, undatiert, vermutlich 1932, veröffentlicht: Tempo 23-06-1932. | Renee Strobawa (b. Renate Stobrawa) as Gretchen in ‘Faust I’ at the Salzburg Festival, undated, probably 1932, published in Tempo 23-06-1932. | src and hi-res Getty Images

Faust, headpiece, scene XIV

Harry Clarke :: Headpiece for Faust solus. Chapter / Scene XIV (Forest and Cavern, p. 173) of «Faust» by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. J. J. Little & Ives Company / Arden Book Company, New York, 1920s (?). Digitalized by University of California Libraries. | src Internet Archive

Faust ~ Mater Dolorosa

Harry Clarke :: Headpiece for chapter / scene XVIII (Donjon, p. 194) of «Faust» by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. J. J. Little & Ives Company / Arden Book Company, New York, 1920s (?). Digitalized by University of California Libraries. | src Internet Archive

Faust and Mephistopheles II

Harry Clarke :: Illustration for «Faust» (page 211) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. J. J. Little & Ives Company / Arden Book Company, New York, 1920s (?)
Caption reads: «Under the ribs of the rock retreating»
Digitalized by University of California Libraries | src Internet Archives