Meer bei Ostende. 1916.
India ink and Watercolor over charcoal.
Signed and dated in center of the right margin. Titled in lower left. On Ingres laid paper (with watermark). 33.5 x 37.4 cm (13.1 x 14.7 in), the full sheet.
[KT].

• While serving as a medic in Flanders during WWI in 1916, the coast of Ostende was Heckel's artistic retreat.
• During the wearisome years of the war, the sea became an independent subject in Heckel's creation.
• The present watercolor is one of the first in a series of dramatic seascapes.

The work is documented in the archive of the estate. We are grateful to Mrs Renate Ebner and Herrn Hans Geissler, Erich Heckel Estate, Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance, for the kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Erich Heckel Estate, Hemmenhofen.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1993, with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION:
Erich Heckel Ölbilder, Aquarelle, Grafik aus dem Nachlass des Künstlers, Kunstverein Konstanz, August 21 - September 25, 1977, no. 29.
Erich Heckel 1883-1970, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Ausstellung zum 100,. Geburtstag des Malers, Städtische Galerie Würzburg, July 3 - Septenber 11, 1983, no. 51.
Erich Heckel, Aquarelle, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, January 8 - February 19, 1989, no. 32.
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).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina, Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 110 (with illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022)
Brückenschlag: Gerlinger–Buchheim, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 28, 2017 - February 25, 2018, pp. 290-291 (with illu.).
Erich Heckel. Einfühlung und Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 31, 2020 – March 7, 2021, p. 247 (with illu).

LITERATURE:
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 300, SHG no. 452 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 209, SHG no. 472 (with illu.).