Die Passion Eines Menschen (The Passion of a Man), Frans Masereel

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Frans Masereel, Die Passion Eines Menschen (The Passion of a Man)
Frans Masereel, Die Passion Eines Menschen (The Passion of a Man)
Frans Masereel
Die Passion Eines Menschen (The Passion of a Man)
1921
Frans Masereel, artist
1889–1972
Die Passion Eines Menschen (The Passion of a Man), 1921
Where object was made: France
Material/technique: woodcut
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 275 x 217 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 10 13/16 x 8 9/16 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Lucy Shaw Schultz Fund
Accession number: 1999.0028
Not on display
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Exhibition Label:
"Printed Art and Social Radicalism," Jun-2002, Stephen Goddard
Masereel invented the idiom of the pictorial novel, narrative books consisting of images with no texts. Masereel, who contributed large numbers of woodcuts to radical journals, here chronicles one man’s life through youth, first love, political awakening, action, and death. His direct and easily read images became synonymous with socialist iconography and were, with the prints of Käthe Kollwitz, a primary source for the burgeoning woodcut print movement in revolutionary China.

Exhibitions

Teaching Gallery: Japanese painting, German modernism
2014
Printed Art and Social Radicalism
Stephen Goddard, curator
2002