In December 1911, Erich Heckel moved from Dresden to Berlin.
Die Brücke was dissolved in 1913.
He was classified as unfit for active service during the First World War, but volunteered to serve in an ambulance unit stationed in Belgium.
He managed to continue to produce work throughout the war.

Between 1922 and 1924 Heckel painted one small, arched room  at the invitation of the Angermuseum on the ground floor of the museum.
It is now called the Heckelraum.
The mural paintings, which were subsequently given the title Lebenstufen (in English: Stages in Life), are considered to be the most important surviving wall paintings of German Expressionism.

In 1937 the Nazi Party declared his work "degenerate"; it forbade him to show his work in public, and more than 700 items of his art were confiscated from German museums.
By 1944 all of his woodcut blocks and print plates had been destroyed.

After World War II Heckel lived at Gaienhofen near Lake Constance, teaching at the Karlsruhe Academy until 1955.
He continued painting until his death at Radolfzell in 1970.
In December 1911, Erich Heckel moved from Dresden to Berlin. Die Brücke was dissolved in 1913. He was classified as unfit for active service during the First World War, but volunteered to serve in an ambulance unit stationed in Belgium. He managed to continue to produce work throughout the war.
Between 1922 and 1924 Heckel painted one small, arched room  at the invitation of the Angermuseum on the ground floor of the museum. It is now called the Heckelraum. The mural paintings, which were subsequently given the title Lebenstufen (in English: Stages in Life), are considered to be the most important surviving wall paintings of German Expressionism.
In 1937 the Nazi Party declared his work "degenerate"; it forbade him to show his work in public, and more than 700 items of his art were confiscated from German museums. By 1944 all of his woodcut blocks and print plates had been destroyed.
After World War II Heckel lived at Gaienhofen near Lake Constance, teaching at the Karlsruhe Academy until 1955. He continued painting until his death at Radolfzell in 1970.
Erich Heckel