"I still remember the first time [ c. 1903-04] when Heckel who had started to draw a plant in the broad white and black manner of a woodcut, stopped bothering to observe the overlapping and the movements of the leaves and instead got down something on the paper that bore a distant resemblance to the overall form of the object. When I criticized the drawing for its carelessness he invoked his right to stylize.. .He said that the only important thing so far as he was concerned was the seizure of a total expression."
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Quote from a memoir of art-teacher , at the Hochschule, Architecture in Dresden; as quoted in Expressionism, ; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 23
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Erich Heckel
1905 – 1913
Erich Heckel (31 July 1883 in Döbeln – 27 January 1970 in Radolfzell) was a German painter artist and print-maker; he was a founding member of the Expressionist artist-group Die Brücke ('The Bridge') which existed 1905-1913.
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