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A work made of lithograph in black on tan wove paper.

Halucinations, from Krüppel

1920

Heinrich Hoerle German, 1895-1936

Germany

Here Heinrich Hoerle depicted the worldview of someone in deep psychological turmoil. His world has become topsy-turvy and unpredictable—a table balances precariously on its edge, and the hands that he lost taunt him as they grow up out of a planter. The prismatic distortions of light and space convey the anger of the wounded man, who is faced with constant reminders of what he has lost.

Lithograph in black on tan wove paper

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