The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 2, 2026

A monochrome etching depicts a garden view through a window framed by floral-patterned curtains. On our left, a tall rose bush with one pale bloom sits in a pot. Beyond, four light-skinned figures labor: one man crouches with a spade, another bends near a woman in a white cap, and a third stands with a shovel. Fine hatched lines texture the landscape and house, creating a dense, tonal composition.

In Spring

1899

Heinrich Vogeler

(German, 1872–1942)
Germany
etching on Van Gelder Zonen paper
Sheet: 36 x 27 cm (14 3/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Prints & Drawings Sundry Art Purchase 2024.11.6
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Heinrich Vogeler was active within an influential avant-garde artists’ colony in Worpswede, located in northeastern Germany, where he built a studio home that he conceived of as a total work of art, featured throughout these prints.

Description

Heinrich Vogeler was instrumental in the development of Jugendstil, or art nouveau, in Germany. This international movement advocated for an integration of the arts and their application to the visual culture of the everyday—including design, household goods, and illustrated books. In Spring features landscapes that loosely evoke the times of day, beginning with an image of the artist encountering a lark in the morning and concluding with the night sky over his home. Vogeler collaborated with the vanguard journal Die Insel and controlled every aspect of the portfolio’s production, including its cover design, font, layout, paper, ink tone, and binding.
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