"Gebrochene Schwingen" (Broken wings)

 

Bruno Heroux

  1868 - 1944 (biography)

1918  

etching 

16 3/8 x 12 5/16" platemark 

unsigned, as usual for this image 

not stated 

artist's name incised into plate in lower margin 

 

heavyweight, cream wove 

published 

Freunde Graphischer Kunst, E.V. Leipzig 

21047 

$200.00 

A group of cro-magnons have climbed up to an aerie and stoned the resident eagle, breaking her wing as she tries to protect her chicks. Surrounding the image are a series of linear vignettes showing modern man's approaches to slaughtering and selling birds for meat and specimens.