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The Married Couple, from Krüppel

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

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

Date:

1920

Artist:

Heinrich Hoerle
German, 1895-1936

About this artwork

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.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Heinrich Hoerle

Title

The Married Couple, from Krüppel

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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1920

Medium

Lithograph in black on tan wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund

Reference Number

2011.99.3

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