Sunrise (Sonnenaufgang), 1914, published 1921

Not on View

woodcut on laid paper

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)

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

2012.92.72

Erich Heckel (artist) German, 1883 - 1970

Otto Felsing (printer) German, 1854 - 1920

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

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

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Kunkel, Alexander

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.

1964: Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. Erich Heckel; das graphische Werke. 2 vols. New York: Ernest Rathenau, 1964, 1965: no. 284, ii/iii