Jan 20
I recently won this in an auction! It's an extremely rare original painting by one of my heraldic heroes, Otto Hupp, a prolific Heraldic genius of the Art Nouveau period.
Research indicates that this heraldic panel would have been painted around 1917 and celebrates the marriage of Freiherr Ludwig von Heyl zu Herrnsheim and Eva Maria von der Marwitz. The Heyl arms (left) show a golden key between silver lilies; the Marwitz arms (right) depict a tree stump with new growth and a winged maiden crest.