Männliches Bildnis. 1919.
Lithograph.
Lower right signed and dated, titled in lower left. From an edition. On smooth wove paper. 38 x 32.5 cm (14.9 x 12.7 in). Sheet: 65,2 x 50,3 cm (25,7 x 19,8 in).
The small circular cut-outs in the upper and right margins of the print identify the sheet as a 1st state print. These areas were added in the 2nd state.

• Striking self-portrait from Osterholz.
• The painting "Bärtiger Mann (Selbstbildnis)" (Hüneke 1919-2) in the Nationalgalerie Berlin shows the same motif.
• The background shows the wall painting of the house in Osterholz.
• Other copies from this state can be found in, among others, the Museum Folkwang Essen and the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).

LITERATURE: Renate Ebner, Andreas Gabelmann, Hans Geissler, Erich Heckel. Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 2: 1914-1968, Munich 2021, no. 745 L I a (of II b).
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Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 304, SHG no. 464 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 214, SHG no. 484 (illu.).

Erich Heckel and his wife had spent a lot of time in Osterholz on the Flensburg Firth since 1913. In the year our lithograph was created, the Heckels bought a farmhouse directly above the cliffs, where they would live temporarily. Erich Heckel converted the attic into a studio and decorated it with murals. This portrait shows the artist, who was very gaunt and emaciated at the time as a result of the war; to his left is a view of a section of the typical wall decoration that he had designed himself. [EH]

In good condition. The right margin slightly irregular from the making. Isolated tiny brown spots. The sheet smooth and without handling creases.