Help the Disabled, from Krüppel

Description

Here psychological turmoil is depicted as physical material—a contorted figure, head tucked down between hunched shoulders, is enveloped by swathes of dark matter resembling a bomb-scarred battlefield. His body emerges as a seedlike outgrowth in a furrowed landscape. Much like the sprouting plant in the upper left, this man endures an excruciating survival and regeneration. The text in the upper-left corner asks us to “Help the Cripple,” to reach out to him, pull him out of this all-encompassing darkness, and help him return to society.

Help the Disabled, from Krüppel

Heinrich Hoerle

1920

Accession Number

209597

Medium

Lithograph in black on tan wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 56 × 43.7 cm (22 1/16 × 17 1/4 in.); Sheet: 59 × 46 cm (23 1/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

Classification

lithograph

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund