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        "accession_number": "1991.109",
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        "tombstone": "Portrait of a Man, 1919. Erich Heckel (German, 1883\u20131970). Color woodcut; image: 46 x 32.6 cm (18 1/8 x 12 13/16 in.); sheet: 69.9 x 55.7 cm (27 1/2 x 21 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1991.109. \u00a9 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn",
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        "title": "Portrait of a Man",
        "creation_date": "1919",
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        "creation_date_latest": 1919,
        "artists_tags": [
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        "technique": "color woodcut",
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        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Woodcut",
        "type": "Print",
        "measurements": "Image: 46 x 32.6 cm (18 1/8 x 12 13/16 in.); Sheet: 69.9 x 55.7 cm (27 1/2 x 21 15/16 in.)",
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            "sheet": {
                "height": 0.699,
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                "width_inch": 21,
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                "height_inch_fraction": 0.125,
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                "width_inch_fraction": 0.8125
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        },
        "state_of_the_work": "IIIA/IIIB",
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": "\u00a9 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn",
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 184690,
                    "title": "Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection",
                    "description": "<i>Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003).",
                    "opening_date": "2003-08-17T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 299699,
                    "title": "Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper",
                    "description": "<i>Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).",
                    "opening_date": "2018-01-14T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
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        },
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        "description": "In this portrait, made one year after World War I ended, Erich Heckel inscribed his own face with the traumas and uncertainties of the period. The woodcut\u2019s jagged angles and broad surfaces distill his facial features while still maintaining a likeness, resulting in the essence of an emotionally disturbed state. The green face further relays the sitter\u2019s spiritual and physical trauma. Heckel first printed the black areas of the block, and then brushed the three colors onto a different block before printing them.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79944163"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"Selected 1991 Acquisitions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 79, no. 2 (1992): 63-83.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 74; Mentioned: p. 81",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161350"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Peters, Emily J. \u201cGraphic Discontent: The German Expressionists strove for spontaneity and unexpected results.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 58. no. 1 (January/February 2018): Cover, P. 5-7, 22.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: Cover, P. 7; Mentioned: P. 6",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2018-01/page/n1/mode/2up"
            }
        ],
        "catalogue_raisonne": "Dube 318",
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.109",
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        "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
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                "description": "Erich Heckel (German, 1883\u20131970)",
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                "birth_year": "1883",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1991-09-23T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1919,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1919",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:36.519000"
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