
Aurel Mărculescu, Cintaretul mortii (Hitler), linocut, published in Clopotul newspaper, 1933, reprinted 1963
Aurel Mărculescu 1900-1947
Aurel Marculescu prolonged the experiment in Expressionist graphic art until after World War II. His engravings (to some extent edulcorated) depict the provincial suburbs, alternating with those in which Fascism and its horrors are submitted to a vehement indictment. Marculescu lived through the tragedy of concentration camps on a which he later commented in his engravings, which are filled with dense emotion. The sketches which portray Hitler and his acolytes are not caricatures in the current sense of the word; drawn in the tradition of Goya and Daumier, they are veritable pamphlets composed in the name of those human ideals which at that time where threatened by the Nazi offensive. – Expressionism as an International Literary Phenomenon: Twenty-one essays and a bibliography, edited by Ulrich Weisstein, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1971, ISBN 9789027284808