Main bei Würzburg. 1927.
Watercolor and color chalks.
Lower right signed and dated. Titled in the lower left. On wove paper. 55.5 x 69 cm (21.8 x 27.1 in), the full sheet. [AW].


• In the year the work was created, Siddi and Erich Heckel spent a long time in Würzburg, where they were guests at the estate of the painter Gertraud Rostosky (1876-1959).
• During this stay he created paintings like “Marienveste bei Würzburg” (1927, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), which has been on loan to the Federal Chancellery in Bonn since 1977.
• By dispensing with subordinate details, Heckel achieves generosity and simplicity in his depiction.

The work is registered in the Erich Heckel Estate, Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance. We are grateful to Mrs Renate Ebner for the kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Estate of the artist (until 1975).
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Erich Heckel (1883-1970). Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Otto Richter-Halle, Würzburg, October to November 1975, cat. no. 10.
Erich Heckel 1883-1970. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen. Exhibition on the occasion of the painter's 100th birthday, Städtische Galerie, Würzburg, July 3-9, 1983, cat. no. 71.
chleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Erich Heckel, Einfühlung und Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 31, 2020 - March 7, 2021, extended until June 20, 2021 (illu. on p. 317).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 322, SHG no. 20 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 234, SHG no. 525 (illu.).

In good condition, colors in fine impression. The outer margins slightly irregular in places. With very slight isolated handling creases. Isolated tiny brown spots.