Young Woman with High Hat by Erich Heckel

Art work details

Original Title :

Mädchen mit hohem Hut

Year of production :

1912

Artist:

Erich Heckel

Medium :

Drypoint

Materials:

Ink, Paper

Dimensions :

plate height: 22.5 cm; plate width: 20 cm

Credit Line :

Gift

Copyright :

© DACS 2013

Catalogue References:

Dube (R)114.

Associated Groups :

Die Brücke, Berliner Secession

Tags:

Portrait, Drypoint, Heckel

Erich Heckel was a painter, printmaker and sculptor, well known for being one of the co-founders of the Expressionist group Die Brücke, along with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.  A keen and experimental printmaker as well as a painter, Heckel moved to Berlin in 1911. This afforded him numerous opportunities to record the city and its inhabitants.

Here he uses a simple window to frame the girl’s angular face and high fashionable hat, drawn in short, sharp strokes. Her large eyes glance away, perhaps momentarily distracted by a café incident, or a shop-window.