Erich Heckel

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Erich Heckel Erich Heckel (b. 1883, Döbeln, d. 1970, Radolfzell) was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the Die Brücke group which as active from 1905 until 1913. Heckel and the three other founding members of Die Brücke (i.e., Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rotluff and Fritz Bley) admired the work of Edvard Munch, and aimed to make a "bridge" (Brücke) between traditional neo-romantic German painting and modern expressionist painting. Primitive, esp. African, art was also an inspiration to the members of the Die Brücke. In 1937 the Nazi Party declared Heckel's work degenerate. It forbade him to show his work in public, and more than 700 items of his art were confiscated from German museums. By 1944 all of his woodcut blocks and print plates had been destroyed. After World War II, Heckel lived at Gaienhofen near Lake Constanz, and taught at the Karlsruhe Academy until 1955. He continued painting until his death at Radolfzell in 1970. Heckel's woodcuts and lettering inspired a few typefaces, most notably: Heckel (2013, David Kerkhoff. Die Bruecke (2013, David Kerkhoff). P22 Woodcut (1996, Richard Kegler). In fact, P22 Woodcut is more generally based on etters carved out artists' printing blocks, as seen in the expressionist woodcuts of not just Heckel, but also Egon Schiele, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Edvard Munch.	EXTERNAL LINKS Erich Heckel MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS German type scene ⦿ Typefaces related to German expressionism ⦿ Wood Type ⦿ Die Brücke ⦿ Typefaces related to Egon Schiele ⦿