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Erich Heckel
The fool1917

Not on view
Woodcut print, bust-length portrait of a figure in a button-front jacket with high collar, bold black lines and high contrast, abstracted faces and a wagon wheel in the background

Erich Heckel, The fool, 1917, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Erich Heckel
Germany, also active Austria, 1883-1970
Title
The fool
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1917
Medium
Woodcut on G. Fichtner paper
Dimensions
Image: 14 1/16 x 10 11/16 in. (35.72 x 27.15 cm); Sheet: 17 15/16 x 14 3/4 in. (45.56 x 37.47 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.82
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.

  • Thiem, Gunther. Prints by Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: A Centenary Celebration. Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Los Angeles, 1985.

  • Dübe, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dübe. Erich Heckel: das graphische Werk. New York: E. Rathenau, 1964.
Copyright
© Nachlass Erich Heckel/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG BILD-KUNST, Bonn