The Married Couple, from Krüppel

The Married Couple, from Krüppel

WW-1920-119900
1920·Lithograph in black on tan wove paper·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.)

<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.)

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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

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Source
aic
Status
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