Head 1919 - 1920

Max Weber’s ‘Head’ is an intense, almost primitive woodcut, using stark contrasts to create a figure that feels both monumental and fragile. I imagine him carving into that block, wrestling with the material, each cut a decisive act. The image emerges from a dark ground, with the face only partly visible. I feel the weight of his decisions, each line a risk. There’s a vulnerability in the way the hand is rendered, reaching out, as though the figure is seeking connection, or maybe just trying to balance. The face is obscured and ambiguous, but the marks feel purposeful. Weber was exploring abstraction, simplifying form to its essence, and this piece reminds me of early modernist experiments. I think he was looking at Cubism and Fauvism, trying to find his own voice. It’s like he’s in conversation with Picasso and Matisse, but speaking a different language. Ultimately, art is about that exchange, those echoes across time and space.