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A multi-panel print. The top row has two dark portraits flanking a geometric grid over a sketched fetal figure. The wide bottom panel displays five heads in a row, featuring basic sketches, fragmented pieces, and exposed anatomical structures.
Our Generation
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Our Generation

Artist Jiri Anderle (Czech, born 1936)
Date1972
MediumDrypoint and mezzotint
DimensionsMat: 30 1/4 x 34 1/2 in. (76.84 x 87.63 cm)
Paper: 25 1/4 x 29 5/8 in. (64.14 x 75.25 cm)
Image: 22 x 27 7/8 in. (55.88 x 70.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1995.27.3
Collections
Visual DescriptionA multi-panel print. The top row has two dark portraits flanking a geometric grid over a sketched fetal figure. The wide bottom panel displays five heads in a row, featuring basic sketches, fragmented pieces, and exposed anatomical structures.
A two-paneled print. The top half shows faint active figures between two complex, fragmented profile heads made of mechanical and geometric sketches. The bottom red panel features three pale, anatomical human figures lunging amidst horizontal streaks.
Up and Down (Perspective No. 5)
Jiri Anderle
1971
A monochrome print featuring a group of fragmented sketches. They include faces of older men, women, a young child, an ape profile, anatomical legs, and a dark, contorted head with a claw-like appendage.
Fragment IV (Belle Epoque)
Jiri Anderle
1980
A two-paneled print. The top section features faint blue intersecting lines and a grid overlaid with two sketched, fragmented faces, one from a self-portrait of Albrecht Durer. The narrow brown bottom panel depicts faces of a woman and baby flanked by horizontal, swirling abstract shapes and textures.
Space for Two (Perspective No. 6)
Jiri Anderle
1971
A monochrome print of an elderly woman in a headscarf and long coat holding twigs and two canes. The right side features a vertical column of four sketches of elderly faces and an additional sketched hand holding twigs.
The Last Spring of My Grandmother
Jiri Anderle
1979
A multi-paneled print. The top section features a large, textured moon in a dark blue sky. A dark brown middle band shows buildings, skulls, and a swastika. The bottom panels depict a large open-mouthed face, portraits, skeletons, and soldiers.
Cruel Game for a Man
Jiri Anderle
1976
A print with an irregularly shaped border featuring two faces. The left shows a softly shaded, forward-facing face with a necklace. The right displays a heavily lined, upward-looking male profile. Text near the bottom reads "OEDIPUS ANTIGONE".
Oedipus and Antigone
Jiri Anderle
1981
A print split horizontally. The upper section features two sketches of a youth wearing a leafy wreath holding grapes, above two peach-colored fruits. The dark lower panel contains a chaotic grouping of deeply shaded, skeletal, and flayed figures. The image of the youth is after Caravaggio.
Bacchino Malato
Jiri Anderle
1984
A print featuring a woman's face beside an oval-framed profile at the top. The middle shows faint sketches of small figures fighting with clubs. The bottom displays a stern man with wild hair and a cravat.
Eroica
Jiri Anderle
1988
A print with a large, highly detailed sketch of a heavily lined, bald elderly man's face dominates the center. It is surrounded by a grid of smaller drawn heads, varying from realistic portraits to severely distorted, fragmented, and grotesque faces.
Sunt Lacrymae Rerum II
Jiri Anderle
1984
A sepia-toned artwork featuring multiple overlapping, sketched human profiles facing each other from the left and right. A dense, chaotic web of intricate, swirling lines and small circular patterns covers the figures and the space between them.
Botticelli and Simonetta
Jiri Anderle
1978
A print of three sketched figures: a woman, a man, and a boy. Heavy, dark ink splatters obscure the central man's torso, dripping downward. A small inset photograph of a posed family is in the bottom right corner.
Soldier, Son and Wife
Jiri Anderle
1980
Portraits of a soldier, his son and wife nude, drawn delicately with heads highly articulated, bodies only linear outline. Photo attached of same family clothed with soldier in uniform.
Soldier, Son and Wife
Jiri Anderle
1980

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