The document provides summaries of 12 artworks from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that depict death or dying. The artworks are from Belgian, Czech, and Austrian artists and include paintings, illustrations, and frontispieces that portray themes of abandoned cities, drowned girls, chosen death, corpses followed by ravens, and the underworld. Many of the works are from the late 1890s to early 1900s and explore allegories of and themes related to death.

1. The “Dead City”:
Fernand Khnopff’s
Bruges-la-Morte (1904)

2. Abandoned City

3. Canal

4. The Hospital of St. John

5. Bruges: A Doorway

6. Memory of Bruges:
The Entry to the Beguinage

7. Requiem
Fernand Khnopff, 1907

8. Death in Czech Art
at the
Turn of the Twentieth Century

9. Allegory of Death
Maximilián Pirner, after 1886

10. The Drowned Girl
Jakub Schikaneder, 1895

11. Frontispiece of Vengeful Cantilena
Karel Hlaváček, 1898

12. Chosen Death
František Tavík Šimon, 1900

13. Chosen Death
František Tavík Šimon

14. Jaroslav Panuška

15. Corpse Followed by Ravens, 1898

16. Death in the Alley, 1900

17. Death Looking into the Window
of Someone Dying, 1900

18. The Dead Man’s Visit, after 1900

19. The Suicide’s Funeral
Felix Jenewein, 1901

20. The Dead Man
František Kupka, 1901

21. The Underworld (Charon)
Jan Konůpek, 1901