Heinrich Hoerle (1895-1936)

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Heinrich Hoerle
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Heinrich Hoerle was a German constructivist artist of the New Objectivity movement. Hoerle was born in Cologne. He studied at the Cologne School of Arts and Crafts but was mostly self-taught as an artist.Wikipedia
Born: September 1, 1895, Cologne, Germany
Died: July 7, 1936, Cologne, Germany

National Gallery of Art 新增了 2 張新相片。

 

Today we turn to works on paper to learn more about ‪#‎Zeitgeist‬ in the Gallery's vast collections. Judith Brodie, curator and head of modern prints and drawings, writes:
"With tens of thousands of prints in the collection, no single print can represent the whole. But many express the spirit of their time, for example, 'Krüppel,' a portfolio of twelve lithographs—published in Cologne in 1920—by the German artist Heinrich Hoerle (1895-1936).

Hoerle was posted to the front from 1917 to the end of the war and witnessed, as did so many others, the horrifying mutilations of World War I. Two lithographs from the 'Krüppel' portfolio are shown below. The first, 'The Man with the Wooden Leg Dreams' is a heart-rending image of a man with a wooden leg reclining on a sofa. He holds up his wooden limb, which rises like a phallus and is transformed into a beautifully arched foot at the center of two large, flourishing leaves. In the second, 'Hallucinations,' a man without arms is taunted by pairs of disembodied hands, which rise from flower pots and flap and gesture at him."

What more do you notice in these two prints? ‪#‎ArtAtoZ‬

Heinrich Hoerle, "Der Männ mit dem Holzbein Träumt (The Man with the Wooden Leg Dreams)," 1920, lithograph on pale brown paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2006.24.7

Heinrich Hoerle, "Hällucinationen (Hallucinations)," 1920, lithograph on pale brown paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2006.24.10