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Death, this nothingness, is the world's end. — Alfred Kubin

A mourning figure, completely covered by a cloak and hood, with bowed head, in a cemetery in Antwerp.
Recollection

© Roland Krawulsky 2025

An angel guards a stone sarcophagus; next to it, various tombs rise steeply against a dark sky.
Angel of Death II
© Roland Krawulsky 2025
The grim face of death with long hair and deep-set, closed eyes appears lurking behind a tombstone.
Lie in Wait
© Roland Krawulsky 2025
A young woman sits on a gravestone with her hands clasped together, her gaze directed expectantly towards the sky.
Io Credo Risorgerò

© Roland Krawulsky 2025

A female figure holds a florally decorated skull in her hands. Viewed from below against a dark stormy sky.
Memento Mori XV
If you're not getting older, you're dead.
— Tom Petty
© Roland Krawulsky 2024
Erotic grave sculpture. Elegant lady with exposed breasts and gently flowing robe looks towards an open door of a crypt.
The Wake at the Sepulchre
© Roland Krawulsky 2024
Sculpture of death, skull with sinister black eye sockets under hood, skeleton hand, gloomy night sky.
Grim Reaper XV

Mors ultima linea rerum.
— After Horace

© Roland Krawulsky 2023

An androgynous angel, sitting on a sarcophagus, with a dreamy gaze, her head tilted to the side with curly hair.
Pensive v1

© Roland Krawulsky 2023

Sculpture of a grieving young woman with curly long hair, half-bare chest and transparent dress, very graceful and erotic.
Femininity

There is only one real antidote to the anguish engendered in humanity by the awareness of inevitable death: erotic joy.
— Gilles Néret

© Roland Krawulsky 2022

Final hug: A naked man clings to a young woman with bare breasts who is already reaching for the sky.
Skyward
Art is a wound that becomes light.
— Georges Braque
© Roland Krawulsky 2022
Erotic back view of a young woman sitting on a boulder. The robe is lowered to the hips, the head is tilted to the side.
Elegance VIII
Youth is the only thing worth having.
― Oscar Wilde

© Roland Krawulsky 2022

Angel sculpture: The design of the arms, neck and head is admirable, as is the expression full of suffering from ideal face.
Angel full of Splendor

© Roland Krawulsky 2022

Sculpture of a female nude, lying on a boulder, draped with a rose, expressive eroticism.
Adoration

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
— Edgar Allan Poe

© Roland Krawulsky 2022

Sculpture of a female mourning figure with a shoulder-free dress in front of the false door of a crypt, inviting gesture.
Just Follow Me

© Roland Krawulsky 2022

A human skull lies beneath the surface of the water. It seems to stare at us from the darkness of the universe.
Vanitas II

© Roland Krawulsky 2021

Sculpture of a female cemetery angel with a sad facial expression, large wings, off-the-shoulder robe, morbid charm.
In Thought III

© Roland Krawulsky 2021

Man with piercing eyes, frowning face and bony hands, head covered by a hood, leaning on his sword.
The Executor

The charms of horror only intoxicate the strong!
— Charles Baudelaire

© Roland Krawulsky 2021

Sculpture of a young woman wearing an off-the-shoulder dress holding an urn and looking pensive. Very tender and erotic.
Melancholia
© Roland Krawulsky 2021
Sculpture on so-called “angel lawn”. The detail shows the naked buttocks of a young woman sitting on a crescent moon.
Moon Princess II

The backside, we do not want to forget, is the most beautiful treasure we can imagine in the female sex.
— Gilles Néret

© Roland Krawulsky 2021

Cemetery sculpture of an unclothed woman with long hair lying on an inclined grave slab.
Desperation
The orchid blossoms of erotic art do not thrive on sandy, Protestant-dry soil. Too much cold rationality, too much Prussian discipline … Sand was not a breeding ground for fantasy … the ingredients of eroticism consist of idleness, ingenuity, uselessness and fantasy …
— Hans-Jürgen Döpp

© Roland Krawulsky 2021

Sculpture of a young, graceful woman in a lace dress, her head bowed and resting against a tombstone, her hands intertwined.
Mourning Beauty XIII

© Roland Krawulsky 2020

Two skeletal but still sumptuously dressed abbots in a monastery church serve as a reminder of the transience of life.
Memento Mori VIII

© Roland Krawulsky 2020

An elegiacally dressed woman dreams of heaven. Her body glows with light that emanates from without a direct light source.
Mourning Beauty XII v2
Non omnis moriar …
— Horaz
© Roland Krawulsky 2020
Bronze sculpture of a young lady in a Parisian cemetery, half-closed eyes, slightly open mouth, covered in patina.
Mourning Beauty XI
There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
© Roland Krawulsky 2019
A slender young lady lies with her shoulders bare on the lid of a sarcophagus in a Parisian cemetery.
Graceful II
Only the good die young.
— English proverb

© Roland Krawulsky 2019

Death, dressed in a robe and hood, but with a clearly visible skull and skeleton, as Atlantean in a French church.
Grim Reaper XII

© Roland Krawulsky 2019

A female angel with bare shoulders and enormous wings has sadly lowered her head onto a monumental gravestone.
Angel full of Beauty

© Roland Krawulsky 2019

Sculpture of a young lady with a hair knot, bare shoulder and tight, transparent garment, standing in front of a grave.
Lucid

© Roland Krawulsky 2019

The bare-breasted fate strides darkly and inexorably onward, its hands grabbing a boy and a girl by the hair.
Nocturne

© Roland Krawulsky 2019

Death, in the form of a winged skeleton, holds a sleeping, athletic youth in his claws and caresses him.
Kiss of Death

Life is the totality of those functions which resist death.
— Xavier Bichat

© Roland Krawulsky 2018

A woman with one shoulder exposed leans against a sarcophagus with her eyes closed, in front of which lies a funeral wreath.
Solace IV
© Roland Krawulsky 2018
Veiled portrait in a Viennese cemetery with delicate facial features, holding a rose in the right hand.
The Veiled Look II

© Roland Krawulsky 2018

An elderly couple, half-skeletonized, wrestle with each other in a death struggle at a city fountain in Nuremberg.
Scene from a Marriage
© Roland Krawulsky 2018
Adam and the naked Eve are driven out of paradise by a sinister skeleton man with a whip. A wolf howls eerily.
Expulsion from Paradise

@ Roland Krawulsky 2018

Rear view of a slim young woman with bare shoulders and a transparent dress, sitting on a gravestone.
Seduction in Stone
I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
© Roland Krawulsky 2018
Interior view of the ruins (with a collapsed ceiling) of the famous theater, built in 1870, which once seated 2,400 visitors.
Teatro Campoamor

A dying world is a delight; there is greatness, sublimity of all kinds in dying worlds.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

© Roland Krawulsky 2017

Death, depicted as a skeleton dressed in a robe and hood, holding a scythe, refers to the transience of earthly endeavors.
Grim Reaper IV
Et in Arcadia ego
Even in Arcadia, there am I
— Proverb
© Roland Krawulsky 2017
A beautiful young woman with bare shoulders, a long dress and a headscarf leans against a gravestone in deep sorrow.
Mourning Beauty VIII

© Roland Krawulsky 2017

An unclothed athletic man kneels desperately in front of the door of a cemetery crypt, trying to gain access.
Missing You
© Roland Krawulsky 2017
Death, as a merciless Grim Reaper, dressed in a robe and hood, his eyes blindfolded, indiscriminately seeks his victim.
Grim Reaper III

My path has led along an abyss, a bottomless depth. I have been forced to jump from stone to stone. The fear of life has accompanied me for as long as I can remember.
— Edvard Munch

© Roland Krawulsky 2016

Monumental burial site with an old man on his deathbed, accompanied by his wife praying for him and a guardian angel.
Farewell II

© Roland Krawulsky 2016

Personified Death stalks us with a sharp gaze from behind his raised robe in a cemetery in Bologna.
Grim Reaper is Watching You
I'm often asked why I so often choose death, transience and the grave as the subject of my paintings. To live forever, one must often surrender to death.
— Caspar David Friedrich

© Roland Krawulsky 2016

A young woman, bare-chested, sits before a tombstone and struggles desperately against Death, who seizes her from behind.
Relentless Pursuit

© Roland Krawulsky 2016

A dreaming female angel lies on a gravestone in Genoa, with a colonnade containing more graves in the background.
Dreaming

© Roland Krawulsky 2016

A sleeping young lady with bare shoulders, wearing a tight-fitting dress, holding a crucifix, in a cemetery in Genoa.
Sleeping Beauty

© Roland Krawulsky 2016

Sensually stretched sideways, a woman, depicted in fascinating physicality, vehemently tries to escape rigid death.
Danse Macabre
© Roland Krawulsky 2016
A naked woman kneels with a thoughtful face before a grave cross with a human skull in its center.
Tête-à-Tête

© Roland Krawulsky 2016

Sculpture of a naked young lady in the rain, holding a cloth protectively over her head, made of black patinated bronze.
Black Sun

The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
― William Blake

© Roland Krawulsky 2016

Death, dressed in a robe and hood, with a scythe in his bony hand, looks at us head-on with a heavily weathered face.
Grim Reaper II

Manly strength and creative drive
bend like grass to my scythe.
— Proverb

© Roland Krawulsky 2016

A graceful young lady sits with closed eyes and bare shoulders at a grave, holding roses and a funeral wreath in her hands.
Mourning Beauty II
The intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.
— Sigmund Freud
© Roland Krawulsky 2016
An elegant lady in a long robe, with her breast partially bared, holds a palm frond as a paintbrush and clasps an urn.
Distinguished Lady

People living deeply have no fear of death.
— Susan Jamison

© Roland Krawulsky 2015

Bronze sculpture of a beautiful young woman with a sad, introspective gaze, her head supported by her right hand.
Mourning Beauty

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

© Roland Krawulsky 2015

A snake winds its way out of the left eye socket of a human skull lying on a gravestone in a Nuremberg cemetery.
Skull & Snake

Tempus fugit
Time flies

— Virgil

© Roland Krawulsky 2015

A human skull with a perfectly preserved set of teeth rests on a grave slab in a Nuremberg cemetery.
Vanitas

I hate wills and I hate tombs;
Rather than implore a tear from the world,
Living, I would prefer to invite the crows
To bleed all the ends of my filthy carcass.
— Charles Baudelaire: The joyful dead

© Roland Krawulsky 2015


A view into a dilapidated factory owner's villa featuring a staircase that winds steadily upwards, as if seen by M.C. Escher.
Villa Chocolate

In the pale and gloomy mood of the realm of dreams lie a melancholy undertone, the misery of abandonment, and the struggle with the incomprehensible.
— Alfred Kubin

© Roland Krawulsky 2015

Six human skulls placed over various femurs form a decorative arch in an ossuary in the Czech Republic.
Six-pack

Quod fuimus, estis, quod sumus, eritis!
What we were, you are;
what we are, you will be!
— Proverb

© Roland Krawulsky 2015

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