Description
Name: Nixies
Medium: Oil Painting
Size: 81cm W x 101 cm H
Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity
About the painting: The German Nix and Nixe (and Nixie) are types of river mermen and mermaids who may lure men to drown, like the Scandinavian type,akin to the Celtic Melusine and similar to the Greek Siren.The Germain epic Nibelungenlied mention the Nix in connection with the Danube, as early as 1180 to 1210.
One famous Nixe of recent German folklore, deriving from 19th-century literature, was Lorelei, according to the legend, she sat on the rock at the Rhine witch now bears her name, and lured fisherman and boatmen to the dangers of the reefs with the sound of her voice. In Switzerland there is a legend (myth) of a sea-maid or Nixie that lived in Lake Zug (the lake is in the Canton of Zug).
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