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    • Germany's Children Are Starving!

    • Germany's Children Are Starving!

    • Children; Hunger; Social; History; Simple; Abstract; Expressionism;

    • A group of wide-eyed children holding up empty plates waiting for food. Very simple lines , with just a few strokes to create the bowls, arms and hair of the children, but very expressive and evocative , showing the sad plight of poor, starving...
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    • Mothers

    • Mothers

    • Mother; Children; Social; History; Expressionism; Simple; Abstract;

    • A group of women clutching their children. Expressive portrayal of the sense of hopelessness and despair among the people in post-war Germany. The figures loom large in the scene as they are close to the picture plane and show many expressions of...
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    • The Mothers

    • The Mothers

    • Mother; Children; Social; History; Expressionism; Simple; Abstract;

    • A group of women clutching their children. Expressive portrayal of the sense of hopelessness and despair among the people in post-war Germany. The figures loom large in the scene as they are close to the picture plane and show many expressions of...
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    • Death and the Woman

    • Death and the Woman

    • Death; Woman; Child; Expressionism; Skeleton; Allegory; Nude; Struggle;

    • A nude woman being attacked by the cloaked, skeletal figure of death while her child clings to her desperately. Simply rendered in a black and white print, the monumental figures are nicely formed, but not detailed. Very expressive work which...
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    • Woman and Death

    • Woman and Death

    • Death; Woman; Child; Expressionism; Skeleton; Allegory; Nude; Struggle;

    • A nude woman being attacked by the cloaked, skeletal figure of death while her child clings to her desperately. Simply rendered in a black and white print, the monumental figures are nicely formed, but not detailed. Very expressive work which...
    • Art History Library
    • In Memory of Karl Liebknecht

    • In Memory of Karl Liebknecht

    • Death; Funeral; Mourning; Woodblock Print; Expressionism;

    • A row of figures mourning over the body of Karl Liebknecht, who lies in front of them, flat under a white sheet with just his head showing. The brutal lines of the woodblock print technique add to the expressiveness of the work as does the stark...
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    • Karl Lieknecht Memorial

    • Karl Lieknecht Memorial

    • Death; Funeral; Mourning; Woodblock Print; Expressionism;

    • A row of figures mourning over the body of Karl Liebknecht, who lies in front of them, flat under a white sheet with just his head showing. The brutal lines of the woodblock print technique add to the expressiveness of the work as does the stark...
    • Art History Library
    • Death Clutches a Woman in its Arms

    • Death Clutches a Woman in its Arms

    • Death; Mother; Child; Allegory; Expressionism;

    • A woman with a child is taken by the allegorical figure of death. Very expressive portrayal using simple lines, abstraction and stark black on white paper to show the horror and fear on the face of the mother as death is upon her and this evokes...
    • Art History Library
    • Death Seizes a Woman

    • Death Seizes a Woman

    • Death; Mother; Child; Allegory; Expressionism;

    • A woman with a child is taken by the allegorical figure of death. Very expressive portrayal using simple lines, abstraction and stark black on white paper to show the horror and fear on the face of the mother as death is upon her and this evokes...
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    • Death Clutches a Woman

    • Death Clutches a Woman

    • Death; Woman; Child; Allegory; Expressionism;

    • A woman with a child is taken by the allegorical figure of death. Very expressive portrayal using simple lines, abstraction and stark black on white paper to show the horror and fear on the face of the mother as death is upon her and this evokes...
    • Art History Library
    • Survivors

    • Survivors

    • Children; War Casualties; Desperation; Social; Beggars; Expressionism; Simple;

    • Adults and children, some wounded, looking towards the viewer for help. Very expressive portrayal showing a large mother figure encircling three of her young children in her arms, with more children in the foreground and several poor and...
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    • Heaven Eyes [book review]

    • Heaven Eyes [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Orphans--Juvenile fiction; Runaway children--Juvenile fiction; Friendship in children--Juvenile fiction; Best friends--Juvenile fiction; Individuality--Juvenile fiction; Grandfathers--Juvenile fiction; Rivers--Juvenile fiction;...

    • Almond, David. Heaven Eyes. Delacorte, 2000. ISBN 0-385-32770-6. $15.95. 233 pp. B+ 4+ FI Reviewed by Kathe C. Homer Three orphans, January, Erin, and Mouse, escape from their orphanage and travel down the river on a makeshift raft. They become...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • Brave Martha [book review]

    • Brave Martha [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Cats--Juvenile fiction; Fear of the dark--Juvenile fiction; Bedtime--Juvenile fiction;

    • Apple, Margot. Brave Martha. Illustrated by Margot Apple. Houghton Mifflin, 1999. ISBN 0-395-59422-7. $15.00. 32 pp. A Pre-2 PB? Reviewed by Kathe Homer ?Martha and her cat, Sophie, live in a big old house with Martha’s parents. Martha and Sophie...
    • Children's Book and Play Review

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