Twee smalle gezichten met lege oogholtes 1900 - 1925

Erich Wichmann made this drawing with pencil on paper. I'm immediately drawn to the haunting quality of these figures, their hollow eyes staring back at us from the depths of the paper. Imagine Wichmann hunched over his work, the pencil scratching across the surface, each line adding to the growing sense of unease. He is building layers of graphite. The texture of the paper almost seems to become part of the image itself. The artist is layering text with these haunting figures. It's as if the artist is trying to communicate something deeply personal and unsettling. It makes you think about other artists who explored similar themes of alienation and anxiety, like Munch or Kollwitz. It's all part of this ongoing conversation between artists across time, isn’t it? We are constantly responding to and building upon each other's work, finding new ways to express the complexities of the human condition. For me, it’s a reminder that art is never created in a vacuum, but always in dialogue with what has come before.