Regenbogen. 1964.
Lithograph in colors.
Ebner/Gabelmann 1056 L B (of C). Dube L 378 B. Signed, dated, titled and numbered. From an edition of 300 copies for Kunstverein Hamburg. On B.F.K. Rives wove paper (with watermark). 43.6 x 57.5 cm (17.1 x 22.6 in). Sheet: 56 x 75,5 cm (22 x 29,7 in).
Released as annual bonus in 964 for the Kunstverein Hamburg (with the stamp on the reverse). Published by Erker Presse, St. Gallen (with the blindstamp). According to Ebner/Gabelmann, two copies are known which have a print run of 330 instead of 300, among them also this copy from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection. [CH/AR].
• The work presumably shows the landscape on Lake Connstance near Hemmenhofen where Heckel and his wife Siddi had built a house.
• The year the work was made, the two volume strong catalogue raisonné of prints (Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube) was published, a year later a monography with a catalogue raisonné of paintings (Paul Vogt).
• Heckel also used the same motif for several watercolors from the same year as well as for a later woodcut he dedicated to the collector Luise Schiefler (1865-1967) on occassion of her 100th birthday (Dube H 454).

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

EXHIBITION: 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).
Erich Heckel. Einfühlung und Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 31, 2020 – March 7, 2021, p. 405 (with color illu)
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. 360, SHG no. 597 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 273, SHG no. 625 (with illu.).

In good condition. With minimal mount staining.