Knabenkopf Andreas 1924

This striking woodcut of a boy, Andreas, was created by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. I can imagine him, knife in hand, carefully carving away at the block to create those bold, graphic contrasts. It's all in the details, you know? Think about Kirchner's expressionist contemporaries and how they worked with line and form. The way he uses the black lines to define the boy's features, that slightly downturned mouth, those closed eyes. What could he be thinking? Is he dreaming? Is the kitty behind him his familiar? These aren't just images; they're feelings, carved out of wood, pressed onto paper. It's a physical process, a dance between intention and accident, each mark leaving its trace. And the way the image is rendered – the textures, the deliberate imperfections, the black cat - invite us into the artist's world, a world where feeling and form are one.