A Woman’s Reflection In A Row of Houses 1946

Ernst Fuchs made this hallucinatory drawing, A Woman’s Reflection In A Row of Houses, without a specified date, using ink. It’s so intricate, like peering into a mind buzzing with symbols. Look at the tonal range, from the densest blacks to these almost luminous grays achieved with the most delicate hatching. It's artmaking as a form of intense looking, each tiny mark building toward a vision, a world. The texture is smooth and precise with fine hatching. Fuchs coaxes the ink into form, a process that’s both controlled and wild. Notice the figure with the hole in its torso—a void, maybe? This brings to mind the Surrealists, like Dali, who used bizarre imagery. But Fuchs has this obsessive, ornate quality that’s all his own. This drawing feels like a portal into something unknown, unsettling, and deeply personal. It reminds us that art is not about answers but about the ongoing search.