The Wood-Carver: Portrait of E. L. Kirchner

© Nachlass Erich Heckel/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG BILD-KUNST, Bonn
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The Wood-Carver: Portrait of E. L. Kirchner

Alternate Title: Der Holzschnitzer: Bildnis E. L. Kirchner
Edition: 23/29

Germany, 1948
Prints; lithographs
lithograph
Image: 11 13/16 x 11 13/16 in. (30 x 30 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund (AC1992.238.9)
Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Not currently on public view

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This portrait is a tribute to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel’s friend and fellow member of the German Expressionist group Die Brücke (The Bridge)....
This portrait is a tribute to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel’s friend and fellow member of the German Expressionist group Die Brücke (The Bridge). Kirchner, who had died by suicide in 1938, is shown carving a sculpture not unlike his Dancer with Necklace, also in LACMA's collection. Heckel made this portrait three years after the end of World War II and more than three decades after the dissolution of Die Brücke. It was a moment of reassessment for the important Expressionist group, which had been defamed as “degenerate” by the Nazis.

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