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Collection Publications: Klinger to Kollwitz Labels2
One of the four architecture students who founded the Brücke, Heckel played a critical role as the group's mediator and business manager, arranging seventy exhibitions of their work between 1905 and 1913.
After the break-up of the Brücke, in 1913, Heckel continued to develop the deliberately angular and rough appearance of his woodcuts, which he had begun making in 1903. In this gaunt self-portrait, one of several executed during World War I, Heckel sets up a dynamic tension between the patterned lines in the face and the broad black and white divisions in the background.
After the break-up of the Brücke, in 1913, Heckel continued to develop the deliberately angular and rough appearance of his woodcuts, which he had begun making in 1903. In this gaunt self-portrait, one of several executed during World War I, Heckel sets up a dynamic tension between the patterned lines in the face and the broad black and white divisions in the background.
