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Erich Heckel

Erich Heckel

1883–1970

WA-00015944

PaintingExpressionism

Representation

None documented

36

Institutional Exhibitions

105

Works in Collection

193

Assets Indexed

8

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

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Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ156700

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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Watercolors: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987–1988

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Drawings Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987

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Naked/Nude

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1986

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Drawing in Austria and Germany

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985

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The Expressionist Idiom

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985

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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984

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Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983

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A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881�1981

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1982

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Art of the Twenties

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979–1980

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Drawings: Recent Gifts

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1975

Field Verification (6 fields)

4 cross-verified · 2 single-source

BiographyWikipedia + Duplicate Merge· 88%✓
Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
Death yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
Primary mediumDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (3)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/erich-heckel
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/2569
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Wikidata
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

About

Why this artist matters now

Erich Heckel was a German Expressionist draftsman and printmaker whose angular, high-contrast drawings and woodcuts distilled human emotion into simplified forms and dramatic line work. A founding member of Die Brücke, the pivotal Dresden-based movement that shaped early 20th-century German Expressionism, Heckel used rapid gestural mark-making and bold chiaroscuro to convey psychological intensity. His subjects ranged from urban scenes and nudes to landscapes, all rendered in a vocabulary of sharp angles and emotional urgency characteristic of the Expressionist woodcut tradition.

Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago

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Movement

Expressionism

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York

Canonical record

Artworks (105)

37. Jahresblatt II: Knable mit Fahne

1967 · Lithograph

plate: 9 1/16 x 6 11/16 inches (23 x 17 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title (folio 3) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Title (folio 3) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 3 7/16 × 5 7/8" (8.8 × 14.9 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 17) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 17) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 8 1/4 × 5 15/16" (21 × 15.1 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 6) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 6) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 7 15/16 × 6" (20.1 × 15.3 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 10 verso) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 10 verso) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 8 1/4 × 6" (21 × 15.2 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 13) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 13) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 7 7/8 × 5 13/16" (20 × 14.8 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 14) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 14) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 8 1/16 × 5 15/16" (20.4 × 15.1 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 8) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 8) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 6 7/16 × 5 3/16" (16.4 × 13.1 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 7) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 7) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 7 7/8 × 5 7/8" (20 × 15 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 12) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 12) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 7 15/16 × 6" (20.1 × 15.3 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 25) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 25) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 7 15/16 × 6" (20.1 × 15.3 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 4 verso) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 4 verso) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 7 15/16 × 5 15/16" (20.2 × 15.1 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 19) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Plate (folio 19) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1963 · One from an illustrated book with twelve line block reproductions

composition (irreg.): 8 11/16 × 6 5/16" (22.1 × 16 cm); page (each): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4" (29.4 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

32. Jahresblatt: Am Meer

1962 · Woodcut

block: 6 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (17.5 x 14 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1954 · Etching; second state

Sheet: (15-13/16 x 11-7/16 inches) 40.2 x 29 cm Plate: (9-3/4 x 6-7/16 inches) 24.7 x 16.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Large Cloud (Grosse Wolke)

Large Cloud (Grosse Wolke)

1951 · Woodcut

composition: 17 5/8 x 14" (44.7 x 35.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 22 3/8 x 18 1/2" (56.9 x 47 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

20. Jahresblatt: Knaben und Brunnen

1950 · Woodcut

block: 7 1/8 x 4 15/16 inches (18.1 x 12.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mountains (Berge)

Mountains (Berge)

1948 · Woodcut

composition: 9 5/8 x 11 13/16" (24.5 x 30 cm); sheet: 13 11/16 x 16 7/8" (34.8 x 42.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Heads (Self-Portrait with Dietrich von Bothmer)

1933 · Lithograph

Sheet: 13-3/16 x 10-1/4 inches (33.5 x 26 cm) Image (irregular): 10-9/16 x 8-5/16 inches (26.8 x 21.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Self-Portrait

1932 · Gouache on cream laid paper, prepared with a white ground

62.6 × 52 cm (24 11/16 × 20 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Otto Mueller

1930 · Lithograph

composition: 19 7/16 x 15 1/8" (49.3 x 38.4 cm); sheet: 28 1/16 x 19 3/4" (71.2 x 50.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Fjord Landscape (Fördelandschaft)

Fjord Landscape (Fördelandschaft)

1924 · Drypoint and tonal etching

plate: 10 1/16 x 13 7/8" (25.6 x 35.2 cm); sheet: 15 7/8 x 21 3/4" (40.3 x 55.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Three Women by the Water

Three Women by the Water

1923 · Woodcut with hand-coloring, on ivory laid paper

Image: 39.6 × 32 cm (15 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.); Sheet: 56.6 × 45 cm (22 5/16 × 17 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

On the Beach

1923 · Woodcut

composition (irreg.): 16 1/8 x 10 5/16" (41 x 26.2 cm); sheet (irreg.): 20 9/16 x 14 5/16" (52.2 x 36.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (3)

105 published of 191 catalogued · 184 with image

MoMA
86 publishedof 172 catalogued172 img
Art Institute Chicago
12 published12 img
The Met
7 published

Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Franzi Reclining (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

6

Movements1

Collections5

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art Christie's Artsy

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

Market

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