From the illustrated book Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time), 1918 (published 1920). Both Campendonk and his friend Franz Marc portrayed humans and animals in harmony with each other and nature, in an evocative,…

Campendonk uses the woodcut medium to considerable effect, creating linear visual patterns and high contrast, evoking a strange dream-like place where the beggars form a tight little circle, a passer by almost disappearing into the black background.…

Lithograph.

Print, 1921.

Etching.

Drypoint, 1914.

Drypoint print, 1916.

Printed by Euphorion Verlag.

Many ex-soldiers returning home from the First World War had terrible injuries, lost limbs or were blind. This poor man has to resort to selling small trinkets or matches on the streets, a bleak and lonely existence. His head raises up, as if he is…

Lithograph, 1918.