Picture "Relay Runner (18th Annual Sheet)" (1948)
Picture "Relay Runner (18th Annual Sheet)" (1948)
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limited | signed | inscribed | woodcut on handmade paper | framed | size 43 x 35 cm
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Picture "Relay Runner (18th Annual Sheet)" (1948)
Woodcut, 1948. Edition: unknown, on handmade paper, signed and inscribed with a message from the artist. Catalogue raisonné: Dube H 387. Motif size 18.8 x 13 cm. Sheet size 22.6 x 15.8 cm. Framed size 43 x 35 cm, as shown.
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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, among others.
Depiction of typical scenes from daily life in painting, with distinctions between rural, bourgeois, and courtly genres.
The genre reached its peak and immense popularity in Dutch paintings of the 17th century. In the 18th century, especially in France, the courtly and gallant painting became prominent, while in Germany, a more bourgeois character developed.