![]() ![]() The death of a close friend in 1894, when Schwabe was 28 years old, engendered his interest in representing death. His first wife was his model for angels and virgins, and "Death" in The Death of the Grave-Digger (1895) resembles her. Images of women were important, sometimes representing death and suffering, other times creativity and guidance. ![]() Before 1900, Schwabe's paintings were more individual and experimental, indicating the idealism of the Symbolists conventional, allegorical scenes from nature became more prominent in his later work. Two distinct styles are recognized in his art. Schwabe lived in France for the rest of his life and died in Avon, Seine-et-Marne in 1926. He illustrated the novel Le rêve (1892) by Emile Zola, Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal (1900), Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), and Albert Samain's Jardin de l'infante (1908). His paintings typically featured mythological and allegorical themes as an essentially literary artist, he was much in demand as a book illustrator. After studying art in Geneva, he relocated to Paris as a young man, where he worked as a wallpaper designer, and he became acquainted with Symbolist artists. ![]() ![]() Schwabe was born in Altona, Holstein, and moved to Geneva, Switzerland at an early age. Carlos Schwabe (July 21, 1866–1926) was a German Symbolist painter and printmaker. ![]()
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