Portrait of a Man (Männerbildnis) [Self-Portrait]
1919
Printer
Publisher, German, 1887 - 1961
Artist, German, 1883 - 1970
Artwork overview
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Medium
color woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 46.1 × 32.5 cm (18 1/8 × 12 13/16 in.)
sheet: 61.9 × 46 cm (24 3/8 × 18 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.9081
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dube 1965, Vol. I, no. 318, State i/iii
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Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1943
Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 132-133, repro.
1966
Prints 1800-1945, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; City Art Museum of St. Louis; and Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, 1966, no. 93.
1983
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.
2024
The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.
Bibliography
1964
Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. Erich Heckel; das graphische Werke. 2 vols. New York: Ernest Rathenau, 1964, 1965.
Inscriptions
lower left sheet signed, in graphite: Gedr. F. Voigt; lower right sheet, signed, in graphite: Erich Heckel
Wikidata ID
Q65019799