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Erich Heckel
The judge1907

Not on view
Woodcut print, close-up portrait of a bearded man's face rendered in stark black ink with jagged white cuts suggesting hair, brows, and beard against a near-black field

Erich Heckel, The judge, 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 judge
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1907
Medium
Woodcut on handmade paper
Dimensions
Image: 6 3/8 x 5 1/8 in. (16.19 x 13.02 cm); Sheet: 14 1/4 x 8 9/16 in. (36.2 x 21.75 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.87d
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.

  • Dübe, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dübe. Erich Heckel: das graphische Werk. New York: E. Rathenau, 1964.
  • 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.

  • 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.
Copyright
© Nachlass Erich Heckel/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Germany

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