Hoeckner, Carl, 1883-1972

Abstract This collection consists of a single black and white lithographic print of Directions, numbered #10, by Carl Hoeckner, undated. Title in lower left hand corner of print, #10 in center, and signature in lower right hand corner all written in pencil. Carl Hoeckner was born in Munich in 1883 and immigrated to Chicago in 1910. In his lithographs from the 1930s, Hoeckner’s talents as a printmaker and his activism coalesced to produce “social documents”...