Waldtalbrücke (Forest Viaduct)

Franz Hein, artist

1863–1927

Waldtalbrücke (Forest Viaduct), 1918

Portfolio/Series title: Wasgenwald (The Vosges Forest)

Where object was made: Germany

Material/technique: woodcut

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 170 x 110 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 6 11/16 x 4 5/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 266 x 185 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 10 1/2 x 7 5/16 in

Credit line: Gift of Marjorie Swann and William Tsutsui in memory of Minoru and Ethel Ashworth Tsutsui

Accession number: 2009.0031.03

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts," Mar-2010, Steve Goddard
Hein's portfolio of six woodcuts is dedicated to the mountainous Vosges (German Vogesen or Wasgen) region that reverted to French control after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The sense of loss from the German perspective was all the more poignant as the region had slipped from German to French control only a few generations earlier, during the French Revolution of 1790. The prints show the woods and the ruins of medieval castles in the Vosges Mountains, including the ruins of the 13th-century castles of Lützelhardt, Wasigenstein, and Schönek.

Exhibition Label:
"Echoes of Human Migration in the Collection of the Spencer Museum of Art," Mar-2010
Hein’s portfolio of six woodcuts is dedicated to the mountainous Vosges (German Vogesen or Wasgen) region that reverted to French control after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The sense of loss from the German perspective was all the more poignant as the region had slipped from German to French control only a few generations earlier, during the French Revolution of 1790. The prints illustrate the woods and the ruins of medieval castles in the Vosges Mountains, including the ruins of the 13th-century castles of Lützelhardt, Wasigenstein, and Schönek.