From
1932 onwards Lothar Sperl produced a series
of woodcuts, collections with titles such as “Border
Folk” (1932) and “Hard
Folk” (1933) which deal with the everyday jobs of the local
population.
Compared to a drawing or etching, a woodcut requires a certain
simplification,
so that the resulting work is more expressionist in style and surpasses
the
realism of the earlier pieces.
Couple
Evening
Meal
Poverty
1932 Woodcut
19x23
Woodcut 21x17
Woodcut
18x12
Walking
to School in a Blizzard
Man
Sowing
Work
Woodcut
11x12
1932 Woodcut
19x23
1933 Woodcut 16x20
Forester
Transporting
Logs
Transporting Logs
1932 Woodcut 20x24
Woodcut
20x16
1932 Woodcut 20x24
Cover Page for
"Grenzvolk"
Forestry
Felling Trees
Sperl 1932 20x24
Sperl 1932 19x23
Etching
16x21
Cutting Wood
Work
7x13
Sperl
1933 16x20
Lumberjack
Going
Home
Going Home
Sperl 1936
29x23
Sperl
1932 22x19
Sperl 1932 22x19
Working the Fields
Forestry
Carrying
Wood
30x26
A series
of cautionary
etchings of 1935 is called “Dance of Death”: