Picture "Women on the Beach" (1919)
Picture "Women on the Beach" (1919)
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limited | signed | dated | titled | woodcut on handmade paper | framed | size 75 x 60 cm
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Picture "Women on the Beach" (1919)
This motif was created during Erich Heckel's first summer stay in Osterholz after the First World War.
Woodcut, 1919. Edition: Several copies outside the edition (offered here) + 40 copies for the portfolio "Elf Holzschnitte 1912-1919, Erich Heckel bei I.B. Neumann", Berlin 1921, in smaller sheet size. On handmade paper, signed, dated and titled lower left. Catalogue raisonné Ebner/Gabelmann 743 H A, Dube H 320 A. Motif size 46 x 32.6 cm. Sheet size 70.5 x 55.6 cm. Size in frame 75 x 60 cm as shown.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
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.