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Erich Heckel
Kleine Flusslandschaft, 1916.
Tempera on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000

 
$ 46,400 - 69,600

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Erich Heckel
1883 - 1970

Kleine Flusslandschaft. 1916.
Tempera on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. 51 x 41 cm (20 x 16.1 in). [KA].


• Heckel captures nature in a gentle color palette and Symbolist forms.
• In the year this painting was created, Heckel was stationed in Flanders with his medical platoon.
• Ominous pink clouds loom above the harmonious landscape — a reflection of Heckel's inner sentiment at the time.
• Exhibited at the Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames in Frankfurt just one year after its creation
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We are grateful to Ms. Renate Ebner, Erich Heckel Estate, for her kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Willy Hahn Collection (1896–1988), Berlin/Stuttgart (from 1944 at the latest until at least 1949).
Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt am Main (until at least 1953).
Dr. Walter Kaminsky Collection, Düsseldorf (label on the reverse).
Karl-Heinz Gabler Collection, Frankfurt am Main.
Wolfram Gabler Collection, Berlin.
Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover (1974).
Private collection, Düsseldorf.
Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover.
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 2006).

EXHIBITION: Erich Heckel, Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt am Main, November 1917, cat. no. 23.
Erich Heckel, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt am Main, 1953.
Zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Ölbilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Plastik. Ausgewählte Kunst aus hundert Jahren, Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover, 2006, cat. no. 8 (illustrated on p. 15).

LITERATURE: Andreas Hüneke, Erich Heckel. Catalogue raisonné of paintings, murals, and sculptures, vol. I (1904–1918), Munich 2017, CR no. 1916–17 (illustrated).
Paul Vogt, Erich Heckel, Recklinghausen 1965, CR no. 1916-13 (illustrated).
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Paul Westheim (ed.), Die Museen und die Kunst, in: Das Kunstblatt III, Potsdam-Berlin 1919 (illustrated in black and white on p. 3).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, 5th auction, April 6–8, 1949, no. 1244 (offered).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, 18th auction, November 24–26, 1953, no. 1757.
Van Ham, Cologne, 248th auction, Modern and Contemporary Art, May 31, 2006, lot 247 (illustrated in color on p. 103).

Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 15.32 h +/- 20 min.




 

Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Erich Heckel "Kleine Flusslandschaft"
This lot can only be purchased subject to regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.

Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.

Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.

The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.

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