This original woodcut is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Erich Heckel 14" at the lower right margin.This work was printed in 1914.Another impression of this work can be found in the collection of National Museum of Norway.The paper bears two castle and star watermarks above and below the image.
Note: Following his family’s move to Dresden as a child, the artist would spend much of his childhood in the nearby small town of Olbernhau in the Erzgebirge [Ore Mountains] – a picturesque region in Saxony. Provenance: Gropper Art Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972. Massachusetts Academic Collection.
This original woodcut is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Erich Heckel 14" at the lower right margin.This work was printed in 1914.Another impression of this work can be found in the collection of National Museum of Norway.The paper bears two castle and star watermarks above and below the image.
Note:
Following his family’s move to Dresden as a child, the artist would spend much of his childhood in the nearby small town of Olbernhau in the Erzgebirge [Ore Mountains] – a picturesque region in Saxony.
Provenance:
Gropper Art Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972. Massachusetts Academic Collection.