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  • Norwegian Landscape Norwegian Landscape

    The quayside houses and boat contrast massively against the cut away whiteness of the unprinted areas of the woodblock, producing an almost abstract boldness. One of the many coastal locations favoured by the Brücke artists.

  • Woman at a table Woman at a table

    Woodcut, 1910.

  • Girl with Outstretched Arm Girl with Outstretched Arm

    Woodcut, 1910.

  • Heads over Houses Heads Over Houses

    Segal’s vision of heads looking down on a village is intentionally rough-hewn, linking to the Brücke, yet perhaps connects more strongly to the approach of Der Blaue Reiter, the rising human forms becoming spiritually attuned to nature, their once…

  • Clown II (Eccentric Head) Clown II (Eccentric Head)

    Woodcut, 1910.

  • The Life of the Virgin II; The Angel appears to Joachim The Life of the Virgin II; The Angel Appears to Joachim

    Events in the life of St Anne and Joachim are found in the proto gospel of James, Matthew and the history of the birth of the Virgin. At the Great Feast of the Lord, the High Priest had refused Joachim’s gifts because he had no children. Whilst he…

  • The Life of the Virgin XIV; The Rest during the Flight to Egypt The Life of the Virgin XIV; The Rest during the Flight to Egypt

    A busy and contented scene, with Mary shown spinning and rocking Christ’s cradle attended by three angels. Joseph is working at his carpentry, with little winged putti sweeping up wood scraps and placing them in a pannier. To counterbalance the…

  • The Holy Family with Three Hares The Holy Family with Three Hares

    This large format woodcut shows the Madonna seated serenely on a turf bench in an open-air setting, the Christ child on her lap and a deferential Joseph behind. Dürer’s approach is to bombard us with a wealth of imagery celebrating the abundance of…

  • Portrait of Ulrich Varnbuler Portrait of Ulrich Varnbüler

    Ulrich Varnbüler was a German public official and distinguished classical scholar. Dürer intended his woodcut to be almost life-size, and to retain the drawn strokes of the original chalk study. The imposing physicality of Varnbüler is marked, with…

  • The Virgin appears to St. John The Virgin Appears to St. John

    The title page to Dürer’s Apocalypse series shows the Virgin Mary with Christ, looking on at St. John, who is in the act of writing. The Revelation of John was written at the end of the first century AD, an allegory foretelling the destruction of…

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