Feast of Passover 1920

Max Weber made this intriguing print, Feast of Passover, at an unknown date. You can see how the process of creating a print allows for this beautiful contrast between light and dark, this kind of push and pull that I try to create in my own paintings. I'm drawn to the rough, almost raw texture. Look at the way the faces emerge from the dark background, etched with such expressive lines, and notice how the marks on the faces are quite different from those on the table. It almost feels as if Weber is wrestling with the wood, carving out these figures with a real sense of urgency. The faces look to me as though they are emerging, struggling even, from the block, which reminds me of the way in which we all emerge and struggle with tradition. It reminds me a little of Munch, perhaps because of the raw emotion or the way the figures seem to be caught in a moment of intense feeling, but Weber is very much his own man. What do you think?