Symposium_(Feuerbach)
Symposium (Feuerbach)
Paintings by Ansel Feuerbach
Symposium or Das Gastmahl des Platon[1] are paintings by the German painter Anselm Feuerbach from c. 1869 and 1873/74 of a moment from Plato's Symposium, when the drunken Alcibiades and revelers enter the house of the poet Agathon.[2][3] Socrates, near the wall at right-centre, turns his back on the scene, and bows his head.[3]
The 1869 painting is in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and the 1874 painting in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.[3]