Erich Heckel studied architecture in Dresden, 1904/05. He was a member of Die Brucke and lived in Berlin from 1911. His work was exhibited in the “Entartet Kunst” (degenerate) exhibition in 1937. A major artist in the Expressionist school and a prolific print-maker, contributing to various art periodicals of the period. Ref:A.& W Dieter Dube. Erich Heckel. Das Graphische Werk. N.Y.1974.