X-rays and death, conceptual artwork is a photograph by Science Photo Library which was uploaded on March 6th, 2014.
X-rays and death, conceptual artwork
X-rays and death, conceptual artwork. This artwork, titled 'The Physician of the X-rays', by Austrian artist Ivo Saliger (1894-1987), dates from... more
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X-rays and death, conceptual artwork. This artwork, titled 'The Physician of the X-rays', by Austrian artist Ivo Saliger (1894-1987), dates from between 1920 and 1940. It shows a radiologist using X-rays to repel Death (left), who is personified as a skeleton wearing a shroud. Lying on the couch is the partially clothed female patient being saved by this diagnostic technique. X-rays were discovered by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, work for which he received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physics. Saliger, a contemporary of Adolf Hitler, became professor of art at the Academy of Vienna in 1920.
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