Prof. Erich Heckel, "Der Narr"
standing, younger man in light jacket in front of unspecified surroundings, see ...

Prof. Erich Heckel, "Der Narr"
standing, younger man in light jacket in front of unspecified surroundings, see catalogue raisonné Dube 309 II B (of IV) and Söhn GDO 105-5, woodcut on laid paper, signed and dated in lead below the image on the right "Erich Heckel (19)17", published in an edition of 100 copies (total edition 120 copies) as sheet 5, of the folder 5 "Deutsche Künstler" of the series "Bauhaus-Drucke-Neue Europäische Graphik", printed and published by Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar, published 1923, (planned 1921), precise print, rich in contrast, minimal light margins and slight light spots, framed under passepartout and behind glass, dimensions approx. 35,8 x 27,2 cm, sheet dimensions (according to the consignor as not framed) ca. 45,5 x 37,7 cm. Artist info: important German painter and graphic artist. Painter and graphic artist (1883 Döbeln to 1970 Radolfzell/Lake Constance), studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden from 1904, discontinued his studies at the beginning of 1906, worked (until 1907) in an architectural office in Dresden and turned to painting and graphic art autodidactically, 1905 together with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl, founds the artists' group 'Brücke' in Dresden, 1907-10 studies with Schmidt-Rottluff in Dangast, 1909 travels to Italy and shares a studio with Kirchner in Dresden, 1909-11 summers with the Brücke artists at the Moritzburg ponds, 1911 moves to Berlin, where he becomes friends with Lyonel Feininger, Franz Marc and August Macke in 1912, 1913 dissolution of the Brücke and first solo exhibition at Fritz Gurlitt's in Berlin, discovered the village of Osterholz in the Flensburg Fjord for himself in 1913 and spent the summer and autumn months here until 1943, 1914 with Heinrich Nauen in Dilborn and participation in the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne, 1915-18 war service as a medic, 1918 member of the "Arbeitsrat für Kunst" and member of the acquisition commission of the Nationalgalerie, from 1920 regular study trips through Germany, Southern France, Italy, England and the Alps, 1931 retrospective at the Kunsthütte Chemnitz, from 1937 exhibition ban and ostracised as "degenerate", at the burning of pictures on 20.3.1939 in the courtyard of the Berlin fire station, 1004 paintings and 3825 watercolours and prints by Erich Heckel were destroyed, 1941-43 stay in Carinthia, 1944 destruction of the studio in Berlin by bombing and relocation to Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance, 1949-55 professor at the Academy in Karlsruhe, participated in numerous exhibitions including documenta 1 in Kassel in 1955, member of the Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands and the Deutscher Künstlerbund Weimar, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler and Internet.