Zwei Mädchenköpfe (Heads of Two Girls)

After the First World War, Burchartz embraced the simplicity and realism of the New Objectivity movement for some time. This lithograph dates from that period. With her pouting lips and brooding eyes, the woman in the foreground makes a melancholy, dejected impression. The face of the woman behind her is summarily rendered and her empty eye sockets give her the semblance of a mask or ghost.