Verflucht seij der Acker um deinet willen, mit Kummer sollt du dich drauf nähren dein Lebenlang. Dorn und Disteln soll er dir tragen und sollst das..

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Verflucht seij der Acker um deinet willen, mit Kummer sollt du dich drauf nähren dein Lebenlang. Dorn und Disteln soll er dir tragen und sollst das..

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Picture shows how Adam and Eve were condemned to a life of labour outside Eden. Below the text in German (Verflucht seij der Acker um deinet willen, mit Kummer sollt du dich drauf nähren dein Lebenlang. Dorn und Disteln soll er dir tragen und sollst das Kraut auf dem Feld essen. Im Schweiß deines Angesichts sollt du dein Brod essen, biß daß du wieder zur Erde werdest, davon du genommen bist. Denn du bist Erde, und sollst zur Erde werden.) and French, as well as a Latin text (Ecce ultima percussio mors carnis est. Saltem haec plaga superbiam cineris domare, et redigendas in lutum cervices, quandoque flectare habebat. Rupert. Tuit. in Genes. c. 24.)

ca. 1750

Artist

Ridinger (1698-1767)

Johann Elias Ridinger ( 1698-1767 ) was a German animal painter, engraver, etcher and publisher. The son of a father with a talent for drawing, Ridinger was taught by Christoph Rasch (also Resch) in Ulm and Johann Falch (also Falk) in Augsburg and then continued his education in Regensburg, where his fondness for hunting led him to study game at the court of Count Metternich. After 1717, he undertook further studies at the Imperial City Academy of Georg Philipp Rugendas. He later founded his own art publishing house in Augsburg, where most of his works appeared. In 1759 he became the director of the Academy of Arts. His etched sheets, which amount to about 1600 pieces, depict animals in characteristic moments of life and scenic environments. Old prints of the sheets are rare.

Historical Description

According to the biblical account in Genesis (chapters 2 to 5), Adam and Eve were the first human couple and thus the progenitors of all human beings. According to this, God formed Adam from earth and breathed into him the breath of life. Subsequently, Adam gave names to the animals, but found no partner counterpart. Thereupon God let Adam fall into a deep sleep, took from him a rib and created from this his counterpart Eve. While in the narration up to this point always of "the man" (Adam) one speaks, Adam recognizes now in the meeting with the new being itself as man and opposite him Eve as woman. Adam is also mentioned in the Koran, the holy scripture of Islam. The biblical account of creation says: "And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; and he created them male and female." Adam and Eve first live in the Garden of Eden. There Eve is persuaded by the serpent to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, despite God's prohibition. The turning away from God's commandments expressed in eating the forbidden fruit is considered disobedience to God in both the Jewish and Christian religions. Christianity speaks of the fall of man. As a result of the rebellion, the Bible describes Adam and Eve realizing their nakedness, whereupon they make themselves an apron of fig leaves. God confronts them, whereupon Adam blames Eve and Eve blames the serpent. Both are expelled from the Garden of Eden, but God makes them fur clothing as protection. Eve must henceforth bear children in pain, and Adam is given the hard and laborious task of farming. The classical words : "For dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return" express, according to the Christian interpretation, that death has now entered the world, since men have remained mortal. In the biblical narrative, after the expulsion from Paradise, Adam begets Cain, Abel and Set with Eve.