Erich Heckel was also part of the Die Brücke group. He was one of the more simple artists in this association. His works often showcased psychological insight and lyricism (Arnason 118). Many of his works were made out of woodcuts. Heckel created a colored woodcut entitled Standing Child in 1910 (Arnason 119). It is another work that features the young Frӓnzi Fehrmann. Ernst Kirchner’s Seated Girl is very modest compared to Heckel’s Standing Child. For this work, Frӓnzi is pictured fully nude standing in front of a picturesque landscape. Heckel’s color choice is very subdued compared to Kirchner’s. Heckel used black outlines to create the girls features, and he left the white color of the paper to act as the color of her skin. He also used red, green, and black colored woodblocks in a puzzle technique to create the background (Arnason 119).
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The green block is in the middle creating rolling hills or mountains. The black block is placed at the bottom. It is hard to say what this block is supposed to be creating. Maybe a body of water like a river or a lake? This work does not have a descriptive narrative to go along with it, but the explicit subject matter categorizes it into the Brücke group. Heckel created another wood cut piece entitled Two by the Sea in 1920 (MilwaukeeArtMuseum). It is a portrait of a man and a woman. Like Standing Child, they are both fully nude. The whole piece is in black and white. He used black outlines to create the features for the man and woman, and he left the white color of the paper to act as their skin. He also used black outlines to create the background which looks somewhat like mountains or, as the title suggests, ocean waves crashing against rocks. These works define the Brücke group because of the expressive subject matter of the eroticized imagery of children and
The green block is in the middle creating rolling hills or mountains. The black block is placed at the bottom. It is hard to say what this block is supposed to be creating. Maybe a body of water like a river or a lake? This work does not have a descriptive narrative to go along with it, but the explicit subject matter categorizes it into the Brücke group. Heckel created another wood cut piece entitled Two by the Sea in 1920 (MilwaukeeArtMuseum). It is a portrait of a man and a woman. Like Standing Child, they are both fully nude. The whole piece is in black and white. He used black outlines to create the features for the man and woman, and he left the white color of the paper to act as their skin. He also used black outlines to create the background which looks somewhat like mountains or, as the title suggests, ocean waves crashing against rocks. These works define the Brücke group because of the expressive subject matter of the eroticized imagery of children and