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Erich Heckel
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“We saw your [ Cuno Amiet's ] work with feelings of admiration and enthusiasm.. .Our group [ Die Brücke ] would be exceedingly glad to find in you a comrade in arms and a champion of its cause.”
Erich Heckel (1883–1970) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Heckel, in a letter of 1 September 1906, to the Swiss artist Amiet; as cited by Günter Krüger, in Die Künstlergemeinschaft Brücke und die Schweiz; as quoted in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in German Express…
“I finished my first woodcut in Dresden in 1905 after the Xylographic art, cutting out of the hard boxwood the clean sketches with the slate pencil. Then followed the rounded iron, to arrive at the woodcut more freely through the simply ripped out sketch on the log (alder, lime tree, poplar), which would be utilized from here on out. Then finally came a short cobbler knife, and without a pré-sketch, the hand cuts freely into the wood a woodcut, just like it would work on paper with the pen.”
Erich Heckel (1883–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Brücke' Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Druckgraphik, Magdalena M. Moeller; Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart 1992, p. 21; as quoted by Louise Albiez (incl. translation), Brücke und Berlin: 100 Jahre Expressionismus; submitted t…
“What we [Brücke-artists] had to remove ourselves from [the German bourgeois mores] was clear; where we were heading was certainly less clear. (original German: Wovon wir weg mussten, war uns klar. Wohin wir kommen würden, stand allerdings weniger fest).”
Erich Heckel (1883–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Heckel in: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: ein Künstlerleben in Selbstzeugnissen, Andreas Gabelmann; Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany 2010; as cited in Claire Louise Albiez (incl. translation), Brücke und Berlin:…
“..differences arose that hindered the publication of the 'Chronik' (written by Kirchner and brought us to the agreement of dissolving Die Brücke group.”
Erich Heckel (1883–1970) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a note, 26 May 1913; as quoted in Brücke und Berlin: 100 Jahre Expressionismus, Anita Beloubek-Hammer, ed.; Berlin: Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2005, p. 266 (transl. Claire Albiez)
“Brücke will remain in the inner sense; only the outer organizational thing should be dissolved.”
Erich Heckel (1883–1970) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to Amiet, Fall of 1913; as quoted in Brücke und Berlin: 100 Jahre Expressionismus, Anita Beloubek-Hammer, ed.; Berlin: Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2005, p. 266 (transl. Claire Albiez)
“How glad I was to paint that for the soldiers it is very beautiful, how much respect and even love for art there is in human beings, in spite of everything, and who would have thought that my style, which seemed so modern and incomprehensible to critics and public at rotten exhibitions in the cities, would now be able to speak and convey something to men to whom I make a gift of it.”
Erich Heckel (1883–1970) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to , from Flanders, at Christmas 1915; as quoted by , in Expressionism, ; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 62
“He [ Otto Mueller ] himself omitted certain things in his pictures that his contemporaries deemed to be of importance, in order to capture the essence.. ..with the greatest possible simplicity.”
Erich Heckel (1883–1970) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to Emmy Mueller, 1953; as quoted in Otto Mueller: A Stand-Alone Modernist, Dieter W. Posselt
“The first encounter with Otto Mueller's paintings was in Berlin, at the showing of the 'Rejects of the Berlin Secession'. which took place at the Galerie Macht in the spring of 1910. And we met him personally the very same day in his studio on Mommsenstrasse. This meeting was significant for all of us and occurred at a fruitful moment; and, as a matter of course, he belonged to Die Brücke community from then on.”
Erich Heckel (1883–1970) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: a later recall of Heckel; as quoted in Expressionism, a German intuition, 1905-1920, Neugroschel, Joachim; Vogt, Paul; Keller, Horst; Urban, Martin; Dube, Wolf Dieter; (transl. Joachim Neugroschel); publisher: Solomon R…