Asta: 533 / Modern Art Day Sale and Gerlinger Collection del 10 dicembre 2022 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 409

 

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Erich Heckel
Mitgliedskarte für die passiven Mitglieder der "Brücke" für 1910, 1910.
Litografia
Stima:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,320
Risultato:
€ 12,500 / $ 13,500

( commissione inclusa)
Mitgliedskarte für die passiven Mitglieder der "Brücke" für 1910. 1910.
Lithograph.
Ebner/Gabelmann 467 L. Dube L 145. Bolliger 34. On blue cardboard. 11.3 x 25.8 cm (4.4 x 10.1 in). Sheet: 16,8 x 29 cm (6,6 x 11,4 in).
Issued for "P. Holstein" (with inscription in ink). [KT].
• From the ownership of Paul Holstein (1884–1947), a school day friend of Erich Heckel and fellow student of Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs in Chemnitz, who was his lifelong friend.
• Holstein was one of the first "Brücke" members, he joined the group in 1906 as member number 3.
• One of to date only seven knwon copies of this membership card; others are at the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Brücke-Museum Berlin, the Landesmuseum Oldenburg as well as as in private ownership.
• With the emblematic Brücke motif.
• To date only one other copy has been offered on the auction market (source: artprice.com)
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PROVENANCE: Paul Holstein (1884-1947), Leipzig/Berlin.
Barbara Wentzel, Stuttgart (inherited from Prof. Dr. Hans Wentzel, presumably in 1975).
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1984, with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).
Erich Heckel. Einfühlung und Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 31, 2020 - March 7, 2021, p. 147 (with illu.).

LITERATURE: Hans Bolliger, E. W. Kornfeld (eds.), Ausstellung Künstlergruppe Brücke. Jahresmappen 1906-1912, Bern 1958, p. 25, no. 34 (with illu. different copy).
Hans Bolliger, Die Publikationen und Dokumente der Künstlergruppe „Brücke“, in: Philobiblon, year III, issue 1, March 1959, pp. 41-71, no. 31 (with illu. different copy).
Annemarie und Wolf-Dieter Dube, Erich Heckel: Das graphische Werk, vol. II Radierungen Lithographien, New York 1965, no. 145 (with illu. different copy).
Hans Bolliger, Die Publikationen und Dokumente der Künstlergruppe „Brücke“, in: Die Jahresmappen der „Brücke“ 1906-1912, ed. by Magdalena Moeller, ex. cat. Brücke Museum Berlin, Berlin 1989, pp. 12-31 (with illu. p. 21 different copy).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 111, SHG no. 63 a (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 176, SHG no. 393 a (with illu.).
Renate Ebner, Andreas Gabelmann, Erich Heckel. Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. I 1903-1913, Munich 2021, p. 288, no. 467 L (with illu. different copy).

In 1910 Erich Heckel took over the design of the membership card. This time the artist chose the medium of lithography and, for technical reasons, was able to draw the motif of the figures moving on bridges very freely and generously on the stone. He integrated the name of the member into the motif. This way Heckel not only achieved a precious, personal effect, but the print on dark blue paper also enhanced the creative effect.
The theologian Paul Holstein (Chemnitz 1884 - Berlin 1947), who joined in 1906, was one of the first passive members. Holstein was a childhood friend of Erich Heckel and a fellow student of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Heckel and Schmidt-Rottluff got to know each other in the debating club "Vulcan" which was initiated by Holstein. The friendship with Heckel and Schmidt-Rottluff lasted a lifetime. One of Erich Heckel's earliest woodcuts from 1904 shows "Meinen Freund P" (My friend P.). [MvL].



409
Erich Heckel
Mitgliedskarte für die passiven Mitglieder der "Brücke" für 1910, 1910.
Litografia
Stima:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,320
Risultato:
€ 12,500 / $ 13,500

( commissione inclusa)