Tag: Angelo Josef Graf von Courten

01 Work, Olympian deities, Angelo Josef Graf von Courten’s Die Nixe, with footnotes #29

May 1, 2023

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The Nixe is a term widely used in German-speaking countries for a female or male water spirit; a kind of supernatural being found in the folklore of many cultures. Angelo Josef Graf von Courten (born January 10, 1848 in Bologna , † December 15, 1925 in Munich ) was a German painter of Swiss descent. Courten came…