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Karl Wiener

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Pencil drawing of a helmeted soldier with a bayonet rifle striding over a smoke-filled, damaged city skyline.

The German Boot"; from: "The 150 Sheets

1940

Ink drawing of a uniformed skeleton with a skeletal nude figure beside it, above civilians among ruined city buildings.

Conclusion" (War Grotesque)

1941

Pen drawing of a woman with closed eyes weeping blood, before a city with smoke rising from chimneys and ruined buildings.

War

1941

Drawing of a screaming woman and man in fear as bombs fall past angular buildings, in ink in a Cubist-influenced style.

Terror

1939

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a bowed man before a burning city with orange flames and smoke.

Mourning

1940

Pencil drawing of pollarded bare trees on a snowy field, with a helmeted figure in a cloak in the lower right.

Winter"; from: "The 150 Sheets

1941

Ink drawing of a man with raised arms on a hilltop, surrounded by diagonal light beams and hatched cloud shapes.

What for?" (Soldier in Minefield)

1941

Charcoal and crayon drawing of a pair of bent legs and hips cropped at the waist, with bare feet on a plain ground.

... goes through the world

1942

Pen and watercolor drawing of a cross-hatched city skyline with a central spire under banded blue, red and yellow evening sky

Evening

1921

Pencil sketch of a chapel with bell tower, wayside shrines, bare trees and a barn over plowed fields.

"Evening Peace" (Pencil sketch)

1935

Ink drawing of rolling hills, a factory chimney, a striding figure under a sun, and three portrait heads in the foreground.

Evening romance

1938

Ink drawing of two men walking past a destroyed tank and wrecked vehicle in hilly countryside with trees.

"When the Slovaks rose up" (Illustration)

1947

Pencil drawing of a girl with raised arms standing on a shore above dark water, captioned Am Wasser, KW.

At the Water

1921

Loose pencil sketch of stylized figures above wavy lines on cream paper, titled Apokalypse, by Karl Wiener.

"Apocalypse" (pencil sketch)

1935

Pencil drawing of a man and a woman walking forward along a sloping path under a pale, cloudy sky.

On the march. Spring is coming. Into the future

1930

Pen drawing of a shadowy alley with an arched doorway, lit wall lantern and hatched cobblestones, titled Auf der Lauer.

On the lookout

1922

Colored drawing of a dusk scene with a rising orange moon behind utility poles, a street lamp, and a fenced path.

Rising Moon

1924

Pencil grid of numbers 1 to 50 over grey watercolor wash with orange and blue marks, signed K.W.

"From my life", 50 sheets

1923

Ink drawing of two birds labeled Auslug and Siesta, one awake and one sleeping, signed K. Wiener, above a color checker.

"Outpost / Siesta" (Bird, awake and sleeping)

1920

Pencil sketch of grotesque figures, a screaming man under a diagonal beam, a fallen figure, and a giant hand over a town.

"Distress", pencil sketch from: cycle "From Yesterday to Tomorrow" ("Grotesques")

1942

"Illumination Study" (Portrait)

1926

Stylized seated figure in a hooded robe under a crescent moon, with German text in colored letters below.

Blindly we crouch at the edge of the earth...

1935

Pencil sheet with three panels: a cubist portrait, a smoky ruined city with pirate and white flags, and bombers over anti-air

Bomb war

1940

Pencil drawing of a nude man running over mountains, carrying a torch whose flame streams toward a city below at night.

Torch-Prometheus

1942

Colored pencil drawing of a woman in a dark hat reading a book against a glowing yellow and red circular background.

Dame im Kafé

1925

Pencil sketch of a woman with bobbed hair, a bearded man behind her, and a bust form on the left against hatched background.

"Dame zwischen Tod und Teufel" (Bleistiftskizze)

1930

Pencil sketch of an abstract composition with geometric lines and a central face with wide eyes, on cream paper.

"Das Trümmerbild" (Entwurf)

1944

Der Friedensrichter

1926

Pencil drawing of a bald man with a sidelong, intense stare, shaded face and dark collar, captioned Der Lauernde.

Der Lauernde

1922

Charcoal drawing of a nude man standing with both arms raised against a dark background, on cream paper.

Der Mensch

1942

Der Nörgler

1926

Pen and ink drawing of a bald man with wide eyes and a slight smile, shaded with cross-hatching, mounted on cream paper.

Der Optimist

1926