Birth

In this vibrant and unsettling scene, a newborn baby, glowing with an otherworldly green light, lies in the arms of a woman, presumably the mother, who is herself bathed in a similar sickly hue. The figures are rendered with a raw, almost primitive energy, their forms distorted and simplified, emphasizing emotion over anatomical accuracy. Around them, the space collapses into a jumble of floating figures and architectural fragments, suggesting a dreamlike or hallucinatory state rather than a literal depiction of a birth. The entire composition pulses with a sense of the miraculous and the grotesque, capturing the profound and often overwhelming experience of new life through a distinctly Expressionist lens. This work, created early in the artist's career, already showcases the intensely personal and symbolic visual language that would define his later output.