Museum Folkwang Collection Online
List View

  • Erich Heckel: ›The Ballad of Reading Gaol‹
    Image Series of 12 Woodcuts on Oscar Wilde's Ballad

  • Erich Heckel dedicated this early series to the “Ballad of Reading Gaol”, published only ten years earlier, in which Oscar Wilde described his shattering experience during his two-year imprisonment, which he was sentenced to because of his public declaration of his homosexuality. Wilde, who personally experienced what people can do to one another, left gaol in 1897 as a broken, sick man and died three years later.
  • More
  • Less
  • Exh_Title_S: Erich Heckel: ›The Ballad of Reading Gaol‹
    Image Series of 12 Woodcuts on Oscar Wilde's Ballad
  • Exh_Id: 538
  • Exh_Comment_S (Verantw): Department of Prints and Drawings
  • Exh_SpareNField01_N (Verantw ID): 186
Works
Die Ballade vom Zuchthaus zu Reading
Zur Ballade I
Zwei Gestalten
Der Gefangene
Der Richter
Der Wärter
Singende
Angst
  • Heckel, Erich

  • Angst, 1907

Das Grauen
Sein letztes Gebet
Zur Ballade II
Kruzifix