Heinrich Hoerle
German, 1895-1936
Halucinations, from Krüppel
INV-2096
Heinrich Hoerle
German, 1895-19361920
Halucinations, from Krüppel
Heinrich Hoerle German, 1895-1936 →lithographprint
Date
1920
Medium
Lithograph in black on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 57.5 × 43 cm (22 11/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 59 × 46 cm (23 1/4 × 18 1/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund
This image offers another example of Heinrich Hoerle’s use of grotesque distortion to convey the intense psychological wounds that have been inflected on wounded men returning from the front. This second Hallucinations print depicts a man who is missing his arms and legs glaring in open-mouthed horror at planters from which new hands and feet beckon and mock him with their easy growth and utter unavailability.
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