Description
This image offers another example of Heinrich Hoerle’s use of grotesque distortion to convey the intense psychological wounds that have been inflected on wounded men returning from the front. This second Hallucinations print depicts a man who is missing his arms and legs glaring in open-mouthed horror at planters from which new hands and feet beckon and mock him with their easy growth and utter unavailability.
Accession Number
209606
Medium
Lithograph in black on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 57.5 × 43 cm (22 11/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 59 × 46 cm (23 1/4 × 18 1/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Credit Line
Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund