"Removal from the cross"

A limp, half-naked body is lowered from above and cradled by a bending figure at the centre of the sheet, its head hanging inverted near the ground while bare feet point upward. An old bearded man stands watching in shadow at the left, and two more figures crowd in at the right, one flinging his hands over his head in a gesture of grief.

The whole scene is built entirely from dense pen crosshatching, with no color beyond the ink itself, so form and shadow emerge from the density and direction of the lines. Faces are pulled into sharp, angular grimaces and the composition crowds every figure close together, producing a claustrophobic, mournful intensity typical of an expressionist hand.