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Hope and Despair II

1931
(German, 1870–1938)
Germany, 20th century
lithograph
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of William J. Eastman 1953.344
Catalogue raisonné: Schult 293
Location: not on view
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In both his sculpture and prints, Barlach expressed the suffering and anguish of World War I (1914-18) and the difficult years that followed. The artist, whose work depicts ordinary workers, wrote: "Truly, not beauty and loveliness is our strength, our power, but rather the opposite, ugliness, daemonic passion and the grotesque genius of greatness..."
Hope and Despair II

Hope and Despair II

1931

Ernst Barlach

(German, 1870–1938)
Germany, 20th century

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