Bärtiger Mann. 1908.
Woodcut.
Signed and dated (presumably belatedly) and titled "Bärtiger Fischer". One of 17 known copies. On creme wove paper. 24.2 x 19.5 cm (9.5 x 7.6 in). Sheet: 40,7 x 29,2 cm (16 x 11,4 in).
The work is registered in the Hermann Gerlinger Collection as SHG 351. [JS].
- Rare. One of only 17 known examples.
• Further copies can be found in important museum collections like the Museum Folkwang, Essen, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp on the reverse. Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022)
Erich Heckel, Einfühlung und Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 31, 2020 - March 7, 2021 (illu. on p. 98).

LITERATURE: Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, Erich Heckel. Das graphische Werk, vol. 1: Holzschnitte, New York 1964, no. 147.
Renate Ebner, Andreas Gabelmann, Hans Geissler, Erich Heckel. Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 1: 1903-1913, Munich 2021, no. 258 H (illu., different copy).

In good condition. Minimally browned and with very few minimal handling marks and finger stains from the printing in the wide margins.