Berge im Schatten. 1961.
Watercolor and color chalks.
Signed, dated and titled in lower right. On Ingres machine-made laid paper by Fabriano (with watermark). 48 x 62.7 cm (18.8 x 24.6 in), the full sheet. [JS].

• "Berge im Schatten" - a remarkable example of Heckel's graphic gift and his sensibility for nature's inifinity.
• While Heckel still placed black contours in the foreground, he attained an impression of infinity through the transparent blue.
• Owing to the experineces made in both WW I and II, Heckel's works time and again show religious or transcendental elements.

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

EXHIBITION: Erich Heckel, 1983-1970. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen. Ausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag des Malers, Städtische Galerie Würzburg, cat. no. 107.
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)
Erich Heckel. Einfühlung und Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 31, 2020 – March 7, 2021, p. 399 (with illu).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 356, SHG no. 585 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 269, SHG no. 613 (with illu.).

In good condition. Unobtrusively discolored.