A rare hand-painted wall decoration chart showing a murder ballad. Such charts are called moritates (moritat). They were used in former times by balladeers in streets and squares, often in conjunction with pictures shown to accompany each stanza. The painting can chronologically be assigned to the 1950s, handpainted on canvas in Germany.

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