Wimmelbild

German
FWOTD – 6 April 2019
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559)

Etymology

wimmeln (“to teem”) +‎ Bild (“picture”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈvɪml̩ˌbɪlt]
  • Hyphenation: Wim‧mel‧bild

Noun

Wimmelbild n (strong, genitive Wimmelbildes or Wimmelbilds, plural Wimmelbilder)

  1. A picture for children richly detailed with numerous people, animals, and objects.
    • 2007, Michael Langes, “Wimmelbild am Amazonas”, in Theater heute, page 45:
      So kreiert Schlingensief auf Wagners Folie natürlich vor allem ein Wimmelbild, ein monströses, nimmermüdes Tohuwabohu im Neben- und Über- und Durcheinander von Bildern und Tönen.
      Of course Schlingensief creates in this way above all a superabundant horror vacui image from Wagner's backdrop, a monstrous, never-tiring vortical chasm in an ensemble of images and notes placed beside, above and through one another.
  2. (art) A genre of painting with many details developed in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Declension
Declension of Wimmelbild [neuter, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Wimmelbild die Wimmelbilder
genitive eines des Wimmelbildes, Wimmelbilds der Wimmelbilder
dative einem dem Wimmelbild, Wimmelbilde1 den Wimmelbildern
accusative ein das Wimmelbild die Wimmelbilder

1Now rare, see notes.

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