Procession of the Dead
Creator: Klimt, Gustav, 1862-1918
Title: Procession of the Dead (The Dead from the Realm of the Dead)
Title Translation: Zug der Toten
Date: 1903
Date Destroyed or Lost: 1945
Nationality: Austrian
Medium: oil on canvas
Object Dimensions: 48 x 63 cm
Former Repository: Collection of Erich Lederer
Circumstances of Destruction or Loss:
Procession of the Dead, along with other paintings from the Lederer collection, was removed to the Schloss Immendorf in Lower Austria for safekeeping where it were destroyed when the castle was burned by retreating SS troops in 1945.
Notes: Exhibited in the Secession Klimt exhbition of 1903, the Procession of the Dead is understood to be an example of the influence of the Dutch symbolist painter, Jan Toorop, on Klimt. For more information, see: Novotny, Fritz, and Johannes Dobai. Gustav Klimt; with a Catalogue Raisonne of His Paintings. New York: Praeger, 1968. cat. no. 131
