Sale: 539 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 10. 2023 in Munich Lot 330

 

330
Erich Heckel
Ostende, 1916.
Watercolor and pencil
Estimate:
€ 14,000 / $ 15,120
Sold:
€ 17,780 / $ 19,202

(incl. surcharge)
Ostende. 1916.
Watercolor and pencil.
Lower right signed, dated, titled and inscribed "7. 1. Ostende". Image inscribed with notes on the colors. On slightly structured laid paper (with watermarks "Duptialia" and "V & B" [?]). 23 x 34.4 cm (9 x 13.5 in), the full sheet. [CH].

• Elaborate and detailed composition in intensive colors.
• In March 1915, Heckel was sent to Ostende in Flanders in March 1915, where he, apart from a short stint to Gent, would serve as medic until the end of the war in 1918.
• Even in times of war, Heckel's works were promoted through essays and illustrations in art magazines, as well as through prints and the art trade in general.
• The year this watercolor was made, Heckel's works were shown in, among others, solo shows at Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames in Frankfurt a. Main and at the Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz in Munich
.

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

PROVENANCE: Erich Heckel Estate, Hemmenhofen.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032, acquired from the above in 1993).

EXHIBITION: Erich Heckel, Wessenberghaus, Kunstverein Konstanz, August 21 - September 25, 1977, cat. no. 26.
Erich Heckel 1883-1970. Aquarelle, Hans Thoma-Gesellschaft, Reutlingen, October 9 - November 6, 1988; Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, January 8 - February 19, 1989, p. 117, cat. no. 28.
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).
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. 298, SHG no. 448 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 288, SHG no. 467 (with illu.).




330
Erich Heckel
Ostende, 1916.
Watercolor and pencil
Estimate:
€ 14,000 / $ 15,120
Sold:
€ 17,780 / $ 19,202

(incl. surcharge)