Cover for Graphik der Gegenwart. Band I. Erich Heckel (Graphics of Today. Volume I. Erich Heckel)
1930, published 1931
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woodcut, printed in blue and black, on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (cut within platemark): 23.8 x 15.7 cm (9 3/8 x 6 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Lila Oliver Asher
Accession Number
2000.165.3
About the Artist
Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel (1883–1970) was born in Döbeln, Saxony, the son of a railway engineer. He attended the Realgymnasium in Chemnitz and went on to study architecture in Dresden, where he encountered the fellow students who would become his closest artistic collaborators. In 1905, together with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Fritz Bleyl, Heckel co-founded Die Brücke — The Bridge — an E...