Spitzer Berg. 1923.
Watercolor over black chalk.
Lower right signed and dated, titled in lower left. On creme wove paper. 59 x 46 cm (23.2 x 18.1 in), the full sheet. [CH].

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

PROVENANCE: Estate of Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1980, with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Erich Heckel. Watercolors, Drawings, Graphics, Mercury Gallery, London, October 30 - November 23, 1973, cat. no. 7.
Erich Heckel 1883-1970. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Ausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag des Malers, Städtische Galerie, Würzburg, April 22 - June 11, 1983, cat. no. 57.

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 317, SHG no. 490 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 226, SHG no. 521 (illu.).

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