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"title": "At the Window II",
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"title": "The First International Competitive Print Exhibition",
"description": "The First International Competitive Print Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 15, 1931).",
"opening_date": "1931-03-18T05:00:00"
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"title": "Contemporary European Prints from the Museum Collection",
"description": "Contemporary European Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-September 6, 1939).",
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"title": "Cross Section: Graphic Art in Germany after the First World War",
"description": "Cross Section: Graphic Art in Germany after the First World War. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10, 1989-January 7, 1990).",
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"id": 383281,
"title": "Stories from Storage",
"description": "Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).",
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"description": "International Competitive Print Exhibition. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18 - April 21, 1931).",
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"did_you_know": "Just over a decade after this print was made, Karl Hofer was labeled a \"Degenerate Artist\" by the National Socialists and his works were removed from German museums.",
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"description": "Windows appear frequently throughout the work of Karl Hofer, who created nearly 300 prints. Dating from a period that Hofer spent in his native Germany between the First and Second World Wars, this lithograph reflects the anxiety and chaos that characterized the country during that time. Figures with masklike faces crowd the space of an interior without interacting. It remains unclear whether they block the view to the outside world that the window would otherwise provide or are instead viewed from a building\u2019s exterior. Enhanced by the jagged, sketchy lines used to render the figures, the composition conveys a sense of alienation and unease.",
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"citation": "L. E. P. \"International Competitive Print Exhibition.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 18, no. 4 (1931): 62-64.",
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"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137376"
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"citation": "Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1948. Published as: At the Window.",
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