↗France, late 19th century-early 20th century · c. 1915–26
Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
Claude Monet
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image licence: CC0 · Museum record & image source ↗
Germany, 20th century · 1924
Wehrlin, Facing front
- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- woodcut
- Dimensions
- Not listed in the source consulted
- Country / context
- Germany
- Movement / tradition
- European and American art
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Attribution / role
- Museum attribution
- Pathway
- European and American art ↗
ABOUT THIS WORK
Wehrlin, Facing front is a representative work in our Ernst Ludwig Kirchner guide. The catalogue records woodcut. Museum attribution. The linked artist guide places it alongside other works from the artist’s career.
Original educational overview · based on the linked museum recordPlace in the artist’s career
The 1908 sea lithograph, the street image around 1914 and the 1924 portrait use different print processes and kinds of compression. Compare broken tonal texture with cut relief edges, and how figures or landscape become angular rhythms. Monochrome can be as forcefully expressive as the bright colours of his paintings.
The artist’s practice
Artist-wide context; individual works may differ.
Media and surface
Lithography and woodcut produce different textures within an expressive graphic practice.
Marks and structure
Angular bodies, compressed spaces and forceful cuts make familiar subjects feel unstable.
Palette and light
Black-white contrast can be as expressive as saturated painted colour; the selected prints demonstrate this directly.
A MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.
