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Hillsborough


Georg Eisler

1989

An Expressionist painting based on a TV freeze-frame of the fatal crush at Hillsborough that killed 96 Liverpool fans.


One of the few major fine-art responses to a football stadium tragedy, echoing Michelangelo's Last Judgment composition.

Language
N/A (visual art)
Subject
Expressionist rendering of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster
Region
Europe
Tone
Angry
Difficulty
Deep

Held in private/gallery collection; exhibited periodically in UK retrospectives of Eisler's work

Limited public display

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