Der Totentanz - Hans Holbein Troika textured Pompeiian red endpapers

textured Pompeiian red endpapers

Cover art by El Huervo / Niklas Åkerblad

This oracle deck was designed not just as a divination tool but as a way for users to examine the self more deeply through their own connections to the card images

210 x 285mm print of an ink drawing on buff paper depicting the endless torment of a unforgiven soul

Published by Hollow Press - June 2021 first printing

Der Totentanz - Hans Holbein Troika textured Pompeiian red endpapersTranslated by Jan Dsterhft First Edition, limited to 250 Hand numbered Copies. Holbein drew the Bilder des Todes ('pictures of death') in Basel, in the last few years before 1526the year in which the woodcutter Ltzelburger died. After his death, his printing blocks, which could only be partially completed, ended up in the possession of his customer the publisher Melchior Trechsel in Lyon. Maybe out of fear for the offence the candour, with which the