# Five Swans

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## Artwork

- Artist: [ECKMANN, Otto](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/eckmann-otto-r40014077f2247d>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Tapestry, wool, 235 x 75 cm

## Commentary

Eckmann designed carpets and tapestries for such firms as H. Engelhard of Mannheim and the Smyrna-Teppich-Fabrik, Berlin. His most famous tapestry, Five Swans \(1896–97\), of which approximately 100 examples were woven, was produced at the Scherrebek tapestry workshops in Schleswig-Holstein \(now Skærbaek, Denmark\).

## Related artworks

- [Cover of Die Woche](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/eckmann-otto-r40014077f2247d/cover-of-die-woche-r60ee9702466c28>)
- [Eckmann font family \(specimen\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/eckmann-otto-r40014077f2247d/eckmann-font-family-specimen-ra4664edcbace32>)
- [Linen closet](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/eckmann-otto-r40014077f2247d/linen-closet-r98c8b6da592b8f>)
- [Night Herons](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/eckmann-otto-r40014077f2247d/night-herons-rd8911eb264a809>)
- [Vase](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/eckmann-otto-r40014077f2247d/vase-r11bc7d83ed648a>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)