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The Seeker – I Sent My Soul Through The Invisible
Pauline Amalie Dohn (1865 – 1934)
27 Saturday Oct 2012
Posted in DOHN Pauline A.
AMERICAN GALLERY - 19th Century
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27 Saturday Oct 2012
Posted in DOHN Pauline A.
A Village Belle
Pear Time
The Seeker – I Sent My Soul Through The Invisible
Well, we know that “I Sent My Soul Through The Invisible” is from a poem by Omar Khayyám, a Persian philospher, mathematician, astronomer, and poet from the 11th and 12th Centuries:
“I sent my soul through the invisible,
some letter of that afterlife to spell;
and by and by my soul returned to me,
and answered, ‘I myself am Heav’n and Hell’.”
We also know that Khayyám was an agnostic, which explains the poem. What we don’t know is what this has to do with “The Seeker” by Pauline Amelie Dohn. I wonder if the painting was autobiographical.
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Yes she took it from the poem. Most of her paintings were somewhat autobiographical.
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BTW the artist was a follower of Horace J. Bridges’ Ethical Movement, sometimes called “ethical humanism”. I have an address Bridges gave at her memorial.
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Believe Middle name is spelled, “Amalie” rather than with an “e”. Also she is sometimes listed under her married name, “Pauline Dohn Rudolph”
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Thanks.
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