This monograph illuminates a less well-known yet coherent and deeply familiar period in the artistic career of the German expressionist Erich Heckel. It is a monograph offering more of a deep dive into Heckel's time in Flanders from an accompanying exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium. The book contextualises the beginnings and the evolution of his work in the years from 1905 to 1918.
This is reflected in his work which is the focus of the book and demonstrates how talented and multifaceted Heckel was as an artist. Capturing portraits and sketches of wounded soldiers and mariners while working as a nurse for the Red Cross in Roeselare, Ostend, and Ghent.
With many expressive woodcuts in colour and striking painted Flemish cityscapes, landscapes and marines. The book concludes with Heckel's work after the war, which were paintings of another well-known Belgium artist, James Ensor, with whom they became close friends.
