Crouching Nude

Max Weber

1919-20

This small woodcut shows a crouching nude rendered by Max Weber in simplified, angular forms and carved, textural marks that turn a human figure into a raw, expressionist emblem.

You'd notice the narrow, columnlike image set amid a wide paper margin, the hunched body defined by bold, choppy incisions and pale highlights with faint green and purple washes that give the scene a compact, intimate intensity.

Made in 1919–20, the print exemplifies Weber’s role in translating Cubist and Expressionist ideas into American printmaking, using the direct, tactile woodcut technique to convey modernist abstraction and emotional immediacy.

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Art Terms

Woodcut Relief print Print Expressionism Cubism Figurative

Exhibitions

Max Weber, 1881–1961: In Memoriam

1961

Recent American Woodcuts and Prints by Marin, Hopper and Weber

1952

The Nude: Thirty 20th-Century Drawings

1970

New Acquisitions: Lachaise Torso; Prints

1934