Herbert Klettke(1923-1984), The Newspaper Man
, 1948. Woodcut on handmade paper, 17 cm x 10.5 cm (image), 29.5 cm x 21 cm (sheet), signed "KL[ettke]" in the printing block, signed again with a pencil below and dated "[19]48", inscribed Der Zeitungsmann.
- in good condition
- The End of News –
The armband with the traffic sign, the three black dots on a yellow background, identifies the news vendor as a blind man. He thus becomes an allegorical figure of the immediate post-war period, illustrating that the world has gone dark with the past catastrophe. Compared to this actual news, all the newspaper reports distributed by the blind man can only be trivial.
