"Munich artist Fritz Schwimbeck is best known for his dark, psychological pen and ink images from before 1920. Labeled a Malerpoet (Painter poet) ... [a] description for artists that created visions of pure, primeval imagination. The Malerpoeten championed black and white images because they believed that a lack of color allowed for just enough distance from reality, moving the viewer to create their own subjective understanding"
https://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2021/02/fritz-schwimbeck-1889-1972.html
A brick-built, vaulted cellar. At the back a stair leads up out of sight. From under the stair emerges the legs of an enormous hairy spider, reaching towards a man who recoils away from it. He holds a burning lamp which casts his shadow a long way towards our viewpoint - his shadow on the bare floor takes up the lower half of the image.
A steep rocky landscape; a river winds its way towards the viewer between spurs of rock. All is covered by slightly surreal, bare and spiky trees.
A man lies in bed; a hideous bony creature with elongated, folded limbs crouches on top of him, its tooth-filled mouth is pressed against his navel.
A dark ink drawing of a stone vaulted corridor and descending staircase. An enigmatic silhouetted figure approaches up the stairs.