Anguish | August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck | 1878 Size:18"x12" again in Griefswald

again in Griefswald

pulling her into a macabre dance

misty grey

accompanied by wild birds and beneath them

Anguish | August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck | 1878 Size:18"x12" again in GriefswaldAnguish is an 1878 oil painting by the artist August Friedrich Schenck. Perhaps Schenck's most famous painting, it is held by National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne, Australia. The painting was an early acquisition by the gallery, just a few years after it was founded, and has been voted the most popular of the gallery's 75,000 works on two occasions, in 1906 and 2011. The painting depicts a ewe bleating in grief, her breath freezing in the cold