"In 1905 I had the opportunity to observe Heckel outside the foor walls of the art room. I took thirty of my students [in architecture] on an excursion.. ..I found him in front of Grünewald's Pieta.. ..and with the greatest of care he had copied the hands that are movingly wrung over the dead body in his sketchbook.. .Then later [ in the train through the country] he suddenly pulled out his sketchbook again and began to scrawl passionate smudges on its pages.. .. and a great roar of 'Heckel's sketching' and shouts of laughter ran through the whole coach.. .When the time came [some days later] I was delighted to find that the boys gave the first price to Heckel's sketchbook, although most of it seemed rather mad to them."
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memoir of art-teacher ; as quoted in Expressionism, ; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, pp. 52-55
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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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