1. Erich Heckel's work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
13 Facts About Erich Heckel
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Erich Heckel left after three terms, shortly after the foundation of Die Brucke, an artists' group of which he was secretary and treasurer.
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Erich Heckel worked in the office of the architect Wilhelm Kreis until July 1907, when he resigned to become a full-time artist.
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Erich Heckel met the other founding members of Die Brucke, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Fritz Bleyl, while studying architecture in Dresden.
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Erich Heckel attended the Dresden Polytechnic Institute for only eighteen months, after which time he accepted a job as a draughtsman at Wilhem Kreis's architectural studio.
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Erich Heckel was able to use the position for the benefit of the Brucke.
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Erich Heckel volunteered for service in Berlin when the war broke out in 1914.
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Erich Heckel then turned to the Red Cross, joining a hospital train in Flanders in March 1915 as a medical orderly.
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At a certain moment in Roeselare, Erich Heckel found himself in the same hospital train as Max Beckmann.
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From May 1915 until the end of the war in November 1918, Erich Heckel served in the Ostend emergency hospital.
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Erich Heckel befriended James Ensor who invited him into his house and his studio.
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Between 1922 and 1924 Erich Heckel painted one small, arched room at the invitation of the Angermuseum on the ground floor of the museum.
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Erich Heckel continued painting until his death in Radolfzell in 1970.