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Woven cotton blanket of Hypnosis by Sascha Schneider, hung on a white wall, with colorful fringed edges. In black, grey and cream, a man whose head is lost in shadow grips a nude young man’s wrist, and a beam of light runs between their faces above pale leafy plants.
Close-up of the woven cotton Hypnosis blanket by Sascha Schneider at its fringed edge. Cream, grey and black threads form part of the image, next to a fringe of rust, cream, blue-grey and black cotton.
The Hypnosis woven blanket hung on a plain wall in low afternoon sun, with a sprig of eucalyptus in the corner.
Someone standing barefoot on a cream rug holds up the Hypnosis woven blanket, showing its size.
Size guide: 52 × 37 in, 60 × 50 in and 80 × 60 in; sizes may vary by up to 2.5 in.

N° 010

Hypnosis

$79 – $139

Woven blanket & wall hanging | 100% cotton

A 2019 film borrowed this image, beam of light and all.

The film is The Lighthouse, by Robert Eggers. In one shot, Willem Dafoe’s lighthouse keeper beams light from his eyes onto Robert Pattinson’s character. Eggers told Vice in 2019 that the shot came from Schneider’s Hypnose.

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Sizes

  • Small Throw52 × 37 in · 132 × 94 cm · Armchair or small wall$79
  • Classic Throw60 × 50 in · 152 × 127 cm · Sofa$99
  • Grand80 × 60 in · 203 × 152 cm · Bed or large wall$139
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The work
Title
Hypnosis
Also known as
Hypnose (German title)
Maker
Sascha Schneider
Nationality, dates
German, 1870–1927 (born in Saint Petersburg, died in Swinemünde)
Date
1904
Inscription
Initials and date at lower right, S.S. 1904
Medium
Not confirmed; the sources we checked differ
Held by
Location not recorded in the sources we checked.
In film
Source for a shot in Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse (2019), as Eggers told Vice in October 2019
Rights
Public domain. Image source: Wikimedia Commons, “Hypnose (Schneider).jpg”, scanned from Hans-Gerd Röder, Sascha Schneider, ein Maler für Karl May (Bamberg, Karl-May-Verlag, 1995), p. 13.

Sascha Schneider was born in Saint Petersburg in 1870 and trained at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. In 1904 he became a professor at the art school in Weimar. That is also the year written under his initials, S.S., at the lower right of this image. Here hypnosis looks like a physical force. A man whose head is lost in black grips a young man by the wrist. A beam of light runs from his hidden face to the young man’s upturned face.

Schneider’s partner, the painter Hellmuth Jahn, began to blackmail him over his homosexuality, then a crime in Germany. Schneider left for Italy, where it was not. Later he co-founded Kraft-Kunst, an institute for bodybuilding, and some of the models for his art trained there.

More than a century later, the director Robert Eggers drew on Schneider and a few other Symbolist painters for the mythological images in his 2019 film The Lighthouse. He has named Hypnose as the source of the shot where light beams from Willem Dafoe’s eyes. His composition is different, he said, but the image stuck with him.

“…that particular shot is a rip-off of a Symbolist painter named Sascha Schneider.”

Robert Eggers, interviewed by River Donaghey, Vice, October 15, 2019

Details
  • Woven blanket, 100% cotton, with colorful fringed edges
  • Three sizes: 52 × 37 in (132 × 94 cm), 60 × 50 in (152 × 127 cm), 80 × 60 in (203 × 152 cm)
  • Size tolerance ±2.5 in (about 6 cm)
  • Hang it as a wall tapestry (hanging hardware not included), or use it on a sofa or bed
  • Woven threads soften fine linework; colors and texture differ slightly from the screen image
  • Catalogue N° 010 · The Noha Studio
Care
  • Machine wash cold, max 30°C / 86°F
  • Gentle cycle, mild detergent
  • Non-chlorine bleach only if needed
  • Tumble dry low
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The original work is in the public domain.