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Erich Heckel
Before sunrise1904

Not on view
Small horizontal relief print, possibly woodcut, showing three bare winter trees in dense black ink with vertical line work and white sky patches, on cream paper
Artist or Maker
Erich Heckel
Title
Before sunrise
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1904
Medium
Woodcut printed in green and gray-green on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 3 7/16 x 5 7/8 in. (8.73 x 14.92 cm); Sheet: 3 11/16 x 8 7/8 in. (9.37 x 22.54 cm) irregular
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.76
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.

  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.

  • 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.