Young Woman (Junges Mädchen)
1913
Medium
woodcut in black on japan paper
Dimensions
sheet: 26 x 17.3 cm (10 1/4 x 6 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift (Partial and Promised) of Daryl R. Rubenstein and Lee G. Rubenstein, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.11.2
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...