Erich Heckel

Quotes

• “We saw your [ Cuno Amiet's ] work with feelings of admiration and enthusiasm.. .Our group [ Die Brücke ] would be exceedingly glad to find in you a comrade in arms and a champion of its cause.”
• “I finished my first woodcut in Dresden in 1905 after the Xylographic art, cutting out of the hard boxwood the clean sketches with the slate pencil. Then followed the rounded iron, to arrive at the woodcut more freely through the simply ripped out sketch on the log (alder, lime tree, poplar), which would be utilized from here on out. Then finally came a short cobbler knife, and without a pré-sketch, the hand cuts freely into the wood a woodcut, just like it would work on paper with the pen.”
• “What we [Brücke-artists] had to remove ourselves from [the German bourgeois mores] was clear; where we were heading was certainly less clear. (original German: Wovon wir weg mussten, war uns klar. Wohin wir kommen würden, stand allerdings weniger fest).”
• “..differences arose that hindered the publication of the 'Chronik' (written by Kirchner and brought us to the agreement of dissolving Die Brücke group.”
• “Brücke will remain in the inner sense; only the outer organizational thing should be dissolved.”
• “How glad I was to paint that for the soldiers it is very beautiful, how much respect and even love for art there is in human beings, in spite of everything, and who would have thought that my style, which seemed so modern and incomprehensible to critics and public at rotten exhibitions in the cities, would now be able to speak and convey something to men to whom I make a gift of it.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1883-07-31 ) 31 July 1883, Döbeln , Kingdom of Saxony , German Empire

Died

27 January 1970 (1970-01-27) (aged 86), Radolfzell , Baden-Württemberg, West Germany

Education

Königliche Technische Hochschule

Known for

Painting, woodcuts/printmaking

Style

Expressionism

Movement

Die Brücke

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Official website

www.erich-heckel.de

Image

Kirchner - Erich Heckel an der Staffelei.jpg

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