Anna Seghers
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Anna Reiling, known by the pen name Anna Seghers, was a German writer. She was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish family and married t
Anna Seghers (1966)
Grave of Anna Seghers in Berlin
Hercules Seghers
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Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers was a Dutch painter and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age. He has been called "the most inspired, experimental and original landscapist" of his period and an ev
Anna Seghers
…Prize in Literature in 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1972. Reiling’s pseudonym is believed to be based on the surname of the Dutch painter and printmaker Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers (c. 1589 – c. 1638). Seghers was born Anna Reiling in Mainz in 1900 into a Jewish family. She was called "Netty". Her father, Isidor Reiling, was a…
Hercules Seghers, Town with four towers, c. 1631; etching & drypoint. Cincinnati Art Museum. A typically unusual etching: printed in green on coloured cotton, and worked over with grey and black washes.
Mountainous Landscape, c. 1650; oil on panel by Seghers. Bredius Museum, Hague – destroyed by fire in Oct. 2007.
Landscape with Fir, c. 1620–30; etching on painted paper, in Rijksmuseum
Panoramic Landscape, c. 1625; oil on canvas, mounted on panel Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, only attributed to Seghers since 1951.