Landschaft in Schleswig. 1935.
Watercolor.
Lower right signed and dated as well as titled in lower left. On wove paper. 55.5 x 69.5 cm (21.8 x 27.3 in), the full sheet.
[AR].
• Landscapes depictions are the most common motifs in Erich Heckel's watercolors.
• This sheet shows a hilly landscape in Schleswig with small trees and bushes.
• From the artist's estate.

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

PROVENANCE: Artist's estate.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1982, mit dem Sammlerstempel, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Erich Heckel. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen aus Norddeutschland, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg, 1970/71, cat. no. 116.
Erich Heckel 1883-1970. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Ausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag des Malers, Städtische Galerie, Würzburg, July 3 - September 11, 1983, cat. no. 81 (with color illu.).
Schleswig-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 (with color illu. on p. 338).
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. 331, SHG no. 521 (with color illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 243, SHG no. 543 (with illu.).

Colorful watercolor in good condition. With isolated small brown spots. With a backed tear (2 cm) on the right edge of the sheet as well as with a few tiny tears (less than 0.5 cm) and isolated weak creases on the upper edge of the sheet, probably due to the mounting.