Farbige Einladungskarte 1922

Adolf Hölzel made this colourful drawing using crayon, and I just love the energy. It’s like Hölzel was juggling shapes, trapping them in a web of thick black lines. I feel like I'm looking at a garden through frosted glass, or maybe the inside of someone’s brain—all these thoughts and feelings bumping into each other. There’s this great lozenge shape on the right with a little blue wishbone inside. What's that about? Hölzel was doing his thing back when abstraction was brand new. Folks like Kandinsky and Mondrian were trying to figure out how to make paintings that weren't just copies of real life. It was an exciting time, full of possibilities, and you can feel that buzz in this little drawing. Artists are always picking up where others left off, remixing ideas and seeing things in fresh ways. It's a big conversation that never ends, really.