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.
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Couple
Evening
Meal
Poverty
1932 Woodcut
19x23
Woodcut 21x17
Woodcut
18x12
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Walking
to School in a Blizzard
Man
Sowing
Work
Woodcut
11x12
1932 Woodcut
19x23
1933 Woodcut 16x20
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Forester
Transporting
Logs
Transporting Logs
1932 Woodcut 20x24
Woodcut
20x16
1932 Woodcut 20x24
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Cover Page for
"Grenzvolk"
Forestry
Felling Trees
Sperl 1932 20x24
Sperl 1932 19x23
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Etching
16x21
Cutting Wood
Work
7x13
Sperl
1933 16x20
Lumberjack
Going
Home
Going Home
Sperl 1936
29x23
Sperl
1932 22x19
Sperl 1932 22x19
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Working the Fields
Forestry
Carrying
Wood
30x26
A series
of cautionary
etchings of 1935 is called “Dance of Death”: