Picture "Girl in a Room" (1947)
Picture "Girl in a Room" (1947)
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limited, 13 copies | numbered | signed | dated | titled | lithograph | framed | size 50 x 42 cm
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Picture "Girl in a Room" (1947)
Original lithograph, 1947. 13 copies, dated, numbered, titled and signed by hand. WKZ Dube 321. motif size 26.9 x 21.2 cm. Sheet size 33.5 x 29.5 cm. Size in frame 50 x 42 cm as shown.
About Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel (1883-1970) is one of the most important artists of German Expressionism. In 1905, together with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl, he founded the legendary artists' group "Die Brücke" in Dresden, which later Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde and Otto Mueller joined.
After World War I Heckel developed a new, cosmopolitan classicism that was accompanied by a more naturalistic approach and a brightening of the palette. In the 1920s, he produced numerous landscape works, including the unusually large charcoal drawing of the 'Westerholz Mill', which is still a popular touristic destination in Schleswig-Holstein.
Erich Heckel's works are represented in the world's leading museums and collections.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.