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Erich Heckel Quotes

1883–1970 Germany

Erich Heckel (31 July 1883 in Döbeln – 27 January 1970 in Radolfzell) was a German painter artist and print-maker; he was a founding member of the Expressionist artist-group Die Brücke ('The Bridge') which existed 1905-1913.

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..differences arose that hindered the publication of the 'Chronik' (written by Kirchner and brought us to the agreement of dissolving Die Brücke group.

Brücke will remain in the inner sense; only the outer organizational thing should be dissolved.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Erich Heckel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.