Not currently on view
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
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..."
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Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849–1918) — L'Incendie de Lou
Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931) — The Miracle at Lourd
Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931) — The Miracle before t
Richard Beatty (American, 1899–1961) — Porgy
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903) — At the Market
Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931) — Two Figures on a Roa
Francesco Primaticcio (Italian, 1504–1570) — Two Roman Women
Max Klinger (German, 1857–1920) — Vom Tode I (Opus II, 1889)
Charles Hasslewood Shannon (British, 1863–1937) — Autumn
T. C. & E. C. Jack|Wilhelm Lehmbruck|William Shakespeare — M
Wilhelm Lehmbruck|William Shakespeare — Macbeth IV
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859–1923) — In the Str