
The Married Couple, from Krüppel
<p>In this moving print, a married couple shares a comforting embrace. The wife cradles one of her husband’s hook arms, and he in turn clutches her hip with his other hook. Leaning in toward each other, their sad expressions convey both mutual love and sorrow. Heinrich Hoerle used complexity and density of line in both the subjects’ faces and the woman’s hands to draw the viewer’s attention to these two focal points of the image.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1920
- Dimensions
- Image: 51.7 × 41.4 cm (20 3/8 × 16 5/16 in.); Sheet: 59.1 × 46 cm (23 5/16 × 18 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
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1920 · Lithograph in black on tan wove paper
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1920 · Lithograph in black on tan wove paper
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Halucinations, from Krüppel
1920 · Lithograph in black on tan wove paper
The Unemployed, from Krüppel
1920 · Lithograph in black on tan wove paper
Title Page, from Krüppel
1920 · Lithograph in black on tan wove paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1920
- Dimensions
- Image: 51.7 × 41.4 cm (20 3/8 × 16 5/16 in.); Sheet: 59.1 × 46 cm (23 5/16 × 18 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1920-119900
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





