Gärtnerei. 1913.
Woodcut.
Signed and dated ("13" corrected above "14"). One of 11 known copies. On firm Japon. 26 x 22.4 cm (10.2 x 8.8 in). Sheet: 46 x 32,4 cm (17,9 x 12,7 in).
[JS].
• Expressionist landscape from the Berlin "Brücke" period.
• The motif goes back to the small village of Caputh near Potsdam, where Heckel stayed in the spring of 1913.
• Rare. To date, a maximum of five further prints have been offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Further prints of this woodcut can be found in, among others, the collections of the Museum Folkwang, Essen, the Brücke-Museum Berlin, the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, and the Albertina Vienna.

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

EXHIBITION: 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 (illu. on p. 309).

LITERATURE: Annemarie und Wolf-Dieter Dube, Erich Heckel, Das graphische Werk, vol. 1, New York 1964, no. H 254.
Renate Ebner, Andreas Gabelmann, Hans Geissler, Erich Heckel. Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, volume 1: 1903-1913, Munich 2021, no. 592 H.
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Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 197, SHG no. 443 (illu.).

In good condition. Deep black print with wide margins. In the margin with isolated faint brown spots and minor traces of rubbing. In the upper right corner with a smoothed vertical crease.