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Erich Heckel

Erich Heckel

1883–1970

PaintingExpressionism

Representation

None documented

36

Institutional Exhibitions

105

Works in Collection

193

Assets Indexed

8

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0

Publications Referenced

90%

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Movements

• Expressionism

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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Watercolors: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987–1988

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Drawings Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987

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Naked/Nude

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1986

About

Why this artist matters now

Erich Heckel was a German Expressionist draftsman and printmaker whose angular, high-contrast drawings and woodcuts distilled human emotion into simplified forms and dramatic line work. A founding member of Die Brücke, the pivotal Dresden-based movement that shaped early 20th-century German Expressionism, Heckel used rapid gestural mark-making and bold chiaroscuro to convey psychological intensity. His subjects ranged from urban scenes and nudes to landscapes, all rendered in a vocabulary of sharp angles and emotional urgency characteristic of the Expressionist woodcut tradition.

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Movement

Expressionism

Medium

Painting

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Institutional

Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York

Canonical record

Artworks (105)

37. Jahresblatt II: Knable mit Fahne

1967 · Lithograph

plate: 9 1/16 x 6 11/16 inches (23 x 17 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate (folio 13) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 13) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 7 7/8 × 5 13/16" (20 × 14.8 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 19) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 19) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 8 11/16 × 6 5/16" (22.1 × 16 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 7) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 7) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 7 7/8 × 5 7/8" (20 × 15 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 12) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 12) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 7 15/16 × 6" (20.1 × 15.3 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Title (folio 3) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Title (folio 3) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 3 7/16 × 5 7/8" (8.8 × 14.9 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 4 verso) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 4 verso) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 7 15/16 × 5 15/16" (20.2 × 15.1 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 14) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 14) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 8 1/16 × 5 15/16" (20.4 × 15.1 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Franzi Reclining (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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