Siegfried Reinhardt
Germany/ St. Louis, (1925-1984)
[A Naked Female Body Standing in 1943]
Ink on paper
A detailed drawing of most of a body of a naked woman standing on the ground with nothing around her. Her left hand is enormous, exaggerated and elongated, and her fingers and fingernails resemble knobs and roots of a tree. The joints of her hips and right shoulder are exaggeratedly rounded, she has extra rounded joints on her limbs and some long hair--but the woman is missing her face and other chunks of herself. A part of her body (possibly a part of her face) hovers in the air near her head. She looks ancient and youthful at the same time while a volcano erupts in the distant background creating large smoke swirls around her legs. A few large ink spots that have been splotched around her body round out the work. Reinhardt sketched in the contours of what appear to be an old piece of paper that serves as the backdrop for the image, likely grounded in the climate of total war and destruction of 1943. The piece is signed and dated: Siegfried Reinhardt-17-1943.
9" x 12" unframed; 14" x 18 1/2" framed