Man wurgt een jager met vuurwapen before 1936

F. Ockerse made this drawing, Man Wurgt Een Jager Met Vuurwapen, with ink and watercolour. It shows a figure strangling a hunter. I like the simplicity of the drawing, its urgent and immediate quality. The artist uses confident, sure lines to convey the tension of the scene. It’s a stark image, rendered economically with tight hatching. I imagine Ockerse working quickly, perhaps from a newspaper image, sketching and hatching with their pen to capture this violent scene. I wonder what the artist was thinking? The men grapple on what looks like a cliff edge. It’s a life and death struggle. The use of colour is very simple. Just a light blue wash behind the figures, maybe the sky. The blankness of the page intensifies the image of the men and the weapon. It reminds me of other expressionist images of violence and protest, like Käthe Kollwitz. Artists are in an ongoing conversation with each other.