Sunrise (Sonnenaufgang)

1914, published 1921

Erich Heckel

Artist, German, 1883 - 1970

Fritz Voigt

Printer

Otto Felsing

Printer, German, 1854 - 1920

Verlag Arndt Beyer, Leipzig

Publisher

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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

    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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