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Erich Heckel
The Prison Guard1907

Not on view
Woodcut portrait print of a man in a flat-brimmed cap, face rendered in bold black with white gouged lines, on cream paper
Woodcut portrait of a bearded man wearing a peaked cap, rendered in stark black and white with bold, angular gouged lines and high contrast.

Erich Heckel, The Prison Guard, 1907, 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 Prison Guard
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1907
Medium
Woodcut on handmade paper
Dimensions
Image: 8 1/4 x 5 7/8 in. (20.96 x 14.92 cm); Sheet: 14 5/16 x 8 11/16 in. (36.35 x 22.07 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.87e
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.

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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Dübe, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dübe. Erich Heckel: das graphische Werk. New York: E. Rathenau, 1964.
  • Papanikolas, Theresa. Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009.
  • Benson, Timothy O. Expressionism in Germany and France: from Van Gogh to Kandinsky. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2014.
  • Benson, Timothy O. L'Expressionnisme en Allemagne et en France : De van Gogh à Kandinsky. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2014.
Copyright
© Nachlass Erich Heckel/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG BILD-KUNST, Bonn