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Hope and Despair II
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About this 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..."
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineHope and Despair II, 1931. Ernst Barlach (German, 1870–1938). Lithograph. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of William J. Eastman, 1953.344
