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A print featuring a realistic, stern-faced man with wild hair on the left. Wispy lines stretch from his head, merging into a large, chaotic, abstract mass of dense, swirling scribbles and horn-like shapes on the right.
Beethoven
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Beethoven

Artist Jiri Anderle (Czech, born 1936)
Date1986
MediumPencil on illustration board
Dimensions14 1/4 x 20 in. (36.2 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1995.27.57
Collections
Visual DescriptionA print featuring a realistic, stern-faced man with wild hair on the left. Wispy lines stretch from his head, merging into a large, chaotic, abstract mass of dense, swirling scribbles and horn-like shapes on the right.
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Les Hasards Heureux des Escarpolettes
Jiri Anderle
1978
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 of a delicately smiling woman overlaid onto an antique handwritten ledger with columns and ornate calligraphy. A dense, chaotic mass of dark, organic lines obscures her lower torso, heavily intermingling with the vintage script.
Madame Henriette and Receipt
Jiri Anderle
1986
Abstract drawing on tan paper. The top half features a dense cluster of chaotic, swirling brushstrokes in ochre, brown, and grey. Below this mass, faint pencil lines outline a simple, curved shape resembling a vase.
Snooty Bouquet
Hiram Williams
1986
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 featuring a large profile head whose cranium is replaced by a dense, complex mass of interwoven shapes and lines. Below are two realistically shaded, forward-facing portraits: a woman on the left and a man on the right.
Quid Faciemus?
Jiri Anderle
1983
A print on a folded document with cursive text and burned edges. Left, a young, short-haired person. Right, a detailed, deeply lined older man with wispy hair, partially obscured by a large burn hole in the paper.
Schopenhauer - Manuskript 2.8.1809
Jiri Anderle
1986
A print with a delicately drawn of an elderly, long-bearded man holding two inscribed tablets. Four different vintage banknotes are stacked vertically in the bottom left corner. A faint horizontal scribbled line and handwritten text appear near the bottom.
Moses
Jiri Anderle
1984
A collage of vintage handwritten documents with stamps and folded-up pages. To the right is a sketch of five overlapping bald profile heads. Below are four scratchy, linear sketches of an elderly face drawn from various angles.
Protokoll Nr. 1
Jiri Anderle
1984
A print of four figures with carefully shaded faces and bodies rendered in loose, swirling, faint contour lines. In the upper left corner is attached a print called 'The Empty Jug' by Fleischmann.
The Empty Jug
Jiri Anderle
1984

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