Spring

One of the few ‘landscape’ prints in the suite, ‘Spring’, like the others, is likely set in a Frankfurt street. As with these other landscapes too, the natural world of Frankfurt - the skies, surrounding trees, parks and river - represent an antidote to the claustrophobia of urban life and the horrors of the front lines. Unlike the crowded compositions of ‘Café Music’ or ‘Madhouse’, ‘Spring’ is relatively open: the streets part for the sun and whirling streams of cloud, all effected with lighter, wispy drypoint lines in stark contrast to the thick, iron flag-pole that protrudes from the building as a man and woman look on with the viewer