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The mother sits smiling with her two children, but does not see what the children see: Two deaths that come in to seize the children.
On the wall hangs a painting, but this is different in the two reproductions. Schröer interprets the painting in Kruspe's drawing (right) as "the angel of death with burning torch. In front of him two sitting, naked child figures".
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Der Tod zum Kinde: |
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Death's verse, »Nim zarter Säugling […]«, is the same as Death's verse to the child in Lübeck. This verse is one of Nathanael Schlott's most successful, but unfortunately it does not fit the picture in Erfurt, where there is more than one child, the child does not sleep peacefully in a cradle, and Death does not swing a scythe.