Siblings (Brother and Sister) [Geschwister], 1913

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Medium

woodcut on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 42.2 × 30.7 cm (16 5/8 × 12 1/16 in.)

sheet: 61 × 50.8 cm (24 × 20 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1965, Vol. I, no. 260, State i/ii

Accession Number

1950.17.301

Artists / Makers

Erich Heckel (artist) German, 1883 - 1970

Fritz Voigt (printer)

Israel Ber Neumann (publisher) German, 1887 - 1961

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Inscription

"M 435 7" lower left sheet, graphite. "Erich Heckel" lower right plate, graphite. " "Geschwister" " lower right sheet, graphite. "Kpj 26/92" verso, lower left sheet, graphite.

Marks and Labels

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

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

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Schaefer, Claude

Exhibition History

1987: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., November 1987.

2024: The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

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