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In both his sculpture and prints, Barlach expressed the suffering and anguish of World War I (1914-18) and the difficult years that followed. The artist, whose work depicts ordinary workers, wrote: "Truly, not beauty and loveliness is our strength, our power, but rather the opposite, ugliness, daemonic passion and the grotesque genius of greatness..."
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Document identity
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130623
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Hope and Despair II
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print
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130623
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print
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Hope and Despair II
description
In both his sculpture and prints, Barlach expressed the suffering and anguish of World War I (1914-18) and the difficult years that followed. The artist, whose work depicts ordinary workers, wrote: "Truly, not beauty and loveliness is our strength, our power, but rather the opposite, ugliness, daemonic passion and the grotesque genius of greatness..."
date
1931
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CC0
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en
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Q79912567
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19193
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Print
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import
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Germany, 20th century
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1953.344
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lithograph
tombstone
Hope and Despair II, 1931. Ernst Barlach (German, 1870–1938). Lithograph. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of William J. Eastman, 1953.344
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PR - Lithograph
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Schult 293
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Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of William J. Eastman
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2026-05-29 06:45:20.620000
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130623
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Prints
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PR - Lithograph
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lithograph
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