Lake in a park
(Parksee)
1914
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by the Margaret Stones Fund for International Prints and Drawings, 2015
© Erich Heckel/Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia Sydney
- Gallery location
- Not on display
About this work
This drypoint was made in 1914, just before the outbreak of the First World War. Like many of Erich Heckel’s prints from this period, Lake in a park is based on an oil painting from the same year, with the composition reversed in the print. The work likely depicts a small park lake in Dilborn in the lower Rhine area, where Heckel spent the spring of 1914 with painter Heinrich Nauen. In the print, Heckel subtly alters the composition of his earlier painting, incorporating stylistic elements such as simplified silhouettes and crystalline forms that evoke the nave of a Gothic cathedral.
Artwork Details
Purchased with funds donated by the Margaret Stones Fund for International Prints and Drawings, 2015
© Erich Heckel/Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia Sydney
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest