Sunrise (Sonnenaufgang)

1914, published 1921

Erich Heckel

Associated Names
Erich Heckel

Artist, German, 1883 - 1970

Fritz Voigt

Printer

Otto Felsing

Printer, German, 1854 - 1920

Verlag Arndt Beyer, Leipzig

Publisher

The image shows a landscape with an elevated perspective. The horizon line is in the upper half of the image, with a dark circular form in the center. There are angular lines in the sky, suggesting movement. The landscape includes abstracted, angular forms resembling rocks. The artwork is in black and white, with bold black lines against a light background.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.1 x 30.3 cm (9 7/8 x 11 15/16 in.) (irregular)
    sheet: 31 x 40.4 cm (12 3/16 x 15 7/8 in.) (irregular)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.72

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1965, Vol. I, no. 284, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified private collection; (Alexander Kunkel, Munich); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased July 12, 2006; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

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: no. 284, ii/iii

Inscriptions

recto, lower right in graphite: E. Heckel 14; verso, lower left corner, in graphite: 946 127

Wikidata ID

Q76339015

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