Hope and Despair II (1931): Art, History and Details
Hope and Despair II at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1931, lithograph. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Hope and Despair II (1931) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Ernst Barlach (German, 1870–1938).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
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..."
Object facts
- Title: Hope and Despair II
- Date: 1931
- Creator attribution: Ernst Barlach (German, 1870–1938)
- Culture: Germany, 20th century
- Type: Print
- Technique: lithograph
- Collection: PR - Lithograph
- Department: Prints
- Accession number: 1953.344
Collection credit
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of William J. Eastman
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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