The Walk (Spaziergang)

1919

Erich Heckel

Associated Names
Erich Heckel

Artist, German, 1883 - 1970

The image depicts two individuals from the waist up. The person on the left is in a slightly twisted position, facing forward with their head tilted slightly to the right, making eye contact with the other person. This person's facial features are marked with sharp, angular lines, and they have short, curly hair. They are wearing a dark garment, with overlapping lines suggesting a textured fabric. The individual on the right has a more angular position, with their head tilted back and to the left, gazing upwards, and their facial features are similarly angular. Their hair is short and closely cropped, and they are also dressed in a dark garment. The person on the left extends a hand, pointing towards the right with distinctive lines adorning the fingers. The background is filled with abstract, radiating lines.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1950.17.303

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1965, Vol. (W), no. 317, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Claude Schaefer [1913-2010], Montevideo, Uruguay; sold 1950 to Lessing J. Rosenwald; [1] gift 1950/1951 to the National Gallery of Art.

[1] In Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 56-57, Rosenwald described being approached by a young man in South America who offered to sell his father’s collection of prints that he had brought with him from Germany. Rosenwald gives the year as 1951, but his appointment books confirm that it was actually 1950 - he left for Buenos Aires on 9 February 1950 and returned on 20 March 1950 (Library of Congress, Rosenwald Papers, Box 75). Rosenwald writes that he bought the entire collection of some 1100 prints and drawings, but as they had already been scheduled to be sent to Europe they came to the United States via Antwerp, arriving in the US in late April 1950. Rosenwald decided to keep about a quarter of the collection, destined for the National Gallery of Art, and donate the remainder to other institutions. The inventory log of Alverthorpe indicates that just over 300 works were accessioned there in May of 1950, inventory numbers 50.260-50.530, acquired from Claude Schaefer (Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, RG 45A1, Rosenwald Papers, Box 41).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1954

  • German Expressionist Prints and Drawings, American University, Washington, D.C., 1954.

Bibliography

1964

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. Erich Heckel; das graphische Werke. 2 vols. New York: Ernest Rathenau, 1964, 1965.

Markings

Verso, stamped in black ink: COMISION NACIONAL DE MUSEOS / Y MONUMENTOS HISTORICOS / JOSE LUIS BUSANICHE / SECRETARIO GENERALE

Wikidata ID

Q65222886

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