The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 14, 2024
Hunting
2018
Location: not on view
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In the photographs of Gabriele Viertel, poet Elly de Waard found a sexuality and eroticism that brought out an unknown side of her own writing. De Waard felt that when violence against women seems omnipresent in the news and the world, her poems and Viertel’s images could provide an antidote—expressions of beauty, tenderness, love, and pleasant glamour.- {{cite web|title=Hunting|url=false|author=Gabriele Viertel|year=2018|access-date=14 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2021.125