© 2013 Erich Heckel / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
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Self-portrait,
1917
Erich Heckel, German, 1883–1970
x1961-40
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Didactics
Heckel was one of the four architecture students and self-taught painters who founded the artists’ collective Die Brücke in Dresden in 1905. Mixing the rhythms of modern life with a keen interest in non-Western tribal arts, the group worked communally to promote an energetic, thoroughly modern style of German painting. Printmaking became central to the group’s activities, which included a modernist revival of sixteenth-century German woodcut technique, coarsely carved and printed by hand.
More About This Object
Information
Title
Self-portrait
Dates
1917
Maker
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
block: 36.2 × 29.5 cm (14 1/4 × 11 5/8 in.)
sheet: 61 x 48.2 cm. (24 x 19 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Object Number
x1961-40
Place Made
Europe, Germany
Inscription
Signed in graphite, lower right: Erich Heckel 17
Marks/Labels/Seals
Two signatures in graphite in unknown hand, lower left and right corners: [both illegible]
Materials
Techniques
Subject
- Erich Heckel, Erich Heckel (Berlin: Euphorion Verlag, 1931)., pl. 33
- Chalres Louis Kuhn, German Expressionism and Abstract Art: The Harvard Collections (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957)., pl. 154
- "Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 21, no. 1 (1962): p. 25-27, p. 26
