Vorberge im Frühling. 1923.
Watercolor and gouache over pencil.
Signed andd ated lower right. Titled lower left. On firm wove paper. 48,4 x 61,6 cm (19 x 24,2 in), the full sheet.
A series of watercolors and paintings with motifs from the Allgäu was made in 1923.

We are grateful to Mr Hans Geissler, estate Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance, for his kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: From artist's estate.
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.

The atmospheric and expressive mountain landscape is a great example of Heckel‘s love of landscape themes in the 1920s. In these days after World War I Heckel found artistic reorientation and the watercolors that he mostly made on journeys occupy a more and more predominant position in his work. He makes landscape panoramas in large formats; the expressionist colors of his earlier days are replaced by more subdued ones. Executed with great care, Heckel created a very special atmosphere in his watercolors, one that the observer can hardly withdraw from. [CB].