Keywords: Josef Hoffmann - Closing scene of Das Rheingold final.jpg Artwork creator Josef Hoffmann Austrian painter Siegfried returns to the Hall of the Gibichungs in act 2 scene 1 of Götterdämmerung 1876 Oil on canvas cm 82 5 107 5 Richard-Wagner-Museum Bayreuth Germany cite journal Carnegy Patrick w Patrick Carnegy 15th Earl of Northesk 2010 July Designs on the Ring The Wagner Journal 4 2 41 55 London United Kingdom The Wagner Journal Barry Millington PDF 1755-0181 2011-06-23 http //www nottingham ac uk/is/gateway/ejournals/wagner_journal/2010_04_02_July_2010 pdf object history Hoffmann was offering to sell copies of the final versions of his paintings to ready buyers Carnegy pp 46 48 credit line Carnegy suggests this is the oil sketch; however Angerer's photograph does not match this the facial expression of the leftmost character the shading of the stone below his right arm and the position of the hand of the female on his left side Those match the cover of the journal which Carnegy says is the final instead As the photograph is of the oil sketch Carnegy might have mixed up his photographs accession number Carnegy 2010 p 44 <gallery> File Victor Angerer - Josef Hoffmann's Closing scene of Das Rheingold cropped jpg Angerer's photo of the sketch File Victor Angerer - Josef Hoffmann's Closing scene of Das Rheingold cropped bw jpg Black and white version of the photo File Victor Angerer - Josef Hoffmann's 03-14 Walhall jpg From a postcard </gallery> PD-old-100-1923 PD-1923 Das Rheingold Josef Hoffmann Austrian painter 1876 oil on canvas paintings 19th-century paintings location missing Rainbows in art |