Man met pijp
In the 1920s Loeber began working less figuratively and developed a pictorial idiom of taut squares and rectangles. That is clearly visible in the layout of this man’s face. The eyebrows, jaw line, and lips have been reduced to lines and planes, as has the angular pipe at the lower left. Furthermore, the illusion of depth has been abandoned, whereby the drawing makes a very abstract impression at first sight.
Lou Loeber