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Erich Heckel
Genius, vol. 1, no. 2 (1920)1920

Not on view
Woodcut print, close-up head portrait in bold black and white with angular, jagged planes and thick carved lines, face tilted downward to the left
Lithograph depicting two figures in close proximity, faces turned toward each other and arms intertwined, rendered with expressive, textured mark-making in dark gray tones against a lighter ground. A cursive signature appears at lower left.
Woodcut print in stark black and white; a bald, broad-shouldered man in a formal suit with a decorative medallion at his collar stands in the foreground, rendered with bold angular lines. A dense crowd of small figures, architectural forms, and jagged geometric shapes fills the background.

Erich Heckel, Head of a girl, 1913, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Erich Heckel
Germany, also active Austria, 1883-1970
Artist or Maker
Georg Ehrlich
Artist or Maker
Frans Masereel
Publisher
Kurt Wolff Verlag
Title
Genius, vol. 1, no. 2 (1920)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1920
Medium
Printed material with two woodcuts and one lithograph on wove and Japan papers
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.814a-c
Classification
Periodicals
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.