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German Artists: Max Nonnenbruch
Max Nonnenbruch 1857 – 1922

Max Nonnenbruch was a German painter from the Munich School, a group mostly known for their Neoclassicism and Symbolism1857-1922, Germany
Antique Heliogravure by Nonnenbruch.
sold Hulstein Antiques 2017
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Art and Poems: Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886

Max Nonnenbruch, Heliogravure I cannot live with You –
It would be Life –
And Life is over there –
Behind the ShelfThe Sexton keeps the Key to –
Putting up
Our Life – His Porcelain –
Like a Cup –Discarded of the Housewife –
Quaint – or Broke –
A newer Sevres pleases –
Old Ones crack –I could not die – with You –
For One must wait
To shut the Other’s Gaze down –
You – could not –And I – could I stand by
And see You – freeze –
Without my Right of Frost –
Death’s privilege?Nor could I rise – with You –
Because Your Face
Would put out Jesus’ –
That New GraceGlow plain – and foreign
On my homesick Eye –
Except that You than He
Shone closer by –They’d judge Us – How –
For You – served Heaven – You know,
Or sought to –
I could not –Because You saturated Sight –
And I had no more Eyes
For sordid excellence
As ParadiseAnd were You lost, I would be –
Though My Name
Rang loudest
On the Heavenly fame –And were You – saved –
And I – condemned to be
Where You were not –
That self – were Hell to Me –So We must meet apart –
You there – I – here –
With just the Door ajar
That Oceans are – and Prayer –
And that White Sustenance –
Despair –Emily Dickinson