Dancer and Italian Town
Erich Heckel (Döbeln 1883 - Radolfzell/Bodensee 1970)
Lot-No. 302
1909. Painted on both sides. Coloured chalk and pen and ink drawing. 19,5 x 11 cm. On both sides lo. ri. sign. and dat. Heckel 09, matted and framed under glass. Three tiny holes. The drawings were created during Heckel's first major trip abroad, which he undertook together with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff to Italy in 1909. The artists reached Rome via Verona, Padua, Venice and Ravenna. The free strokes and the powerful, high-contrast coloring suggest that they were created before the subject. - Expertise: Confirmation of authenticity by Leopold Reidemeister, director of the Brücke Museum Berlin, 26.08.82 - Provenance: Gallery Arnold Dresden, 1920s; Gallery Saxonia Munich, 24.09.82; where acquired by Christian Kracht, chief representative of the pulilsher Axel Springer; 1994 as a gift to Krachts daughter - One of the most eminent exponents of expressionism. H. was besides Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluf and F. Bleyl among the founders of the ‘Brücke’ in Dresden in 1905. He shared a studio with Kirchner for a extended period, after travelling widely he moved to Berlin in 1911 where he contributed to establish expressionism internationally. During World War I he served as corpsman in Flanders where he met M. Beckmann and J. Ensor. After the war he received numerous private and public commissions, as early as 1931 he was honoured with a great retrospective. Outlawed by the Nazis he retired to Lake Constance, a large number of his works was seized and destroyed. After WW II many exhibitions and awards payed tribute to him, among others he exhibited at the Documenta I in 1955. From 1949 to 1955 he was lecturer at the Karlsruhe academy. Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal., Brücke-Museum), New York (Neue Gal.), Madrid (Mus. Thyssen-Bornemisza), Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Mus.), Essen (Folkwang-Mus.) a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit, P. Vogt: E. H., Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, 1965 a. others.
Erich Heckel: Dancer and Italian Town
Erich Heckel (Döbeln 1883 - Radolfzell/Bodensee 1970)
Dancer and Italian Town
Lot-No. 302
1909. Painted on both sides. Coloured chalk and pen and ink drawing. 19,5 x 11 cm. On both sides lo. ri. sign. and dat. Heckel 09, matted and framed under glass. Three tiny holes. The drawings were created during Heckel's first major trip abroad, which he undertook together with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff to Italy in 1909. The artists reached Rome via Verona, Padua, Venice and Ravenna. The free strokes and the powerful, high-contrast coloring suggest that they were created before the subject. - Expertise: Confirmation of authenticity by Leopold Reidemeister, director of the Brücke Museum Berlin, 26.08.82 - Provenance: Gallery Arnold Dresden, 1920s; Gallery Saxonia Munich, 24.09.82; where acquired by Christian Kracht, chief representative of the pulilsher Axel Springer; 1994 as a gift to Krachts daughter - One of the most eminent exponents of expressionism. H. was besides Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluf and F. Bleyl among the founders of the ‘Brücke’ in Dresden in 1905. He shared a studio with Kirchner for a extended period, after travelling widely he moved to Berlin in 1911 where he contributed to establish expressionism internationally. During World War I he served as corpsman in Flanders where he met M. Beckmann and J. Ensor. After the war he received numerous private and public commissions, as early as 1931 he was honoured with a great retrospective. Outlawed by the Nazis he retired to Lake Constance, a large number of his works was seized and destroyed. After WW II many exhibitions and awards payed tribute to him, among others he exhibited at the Documenta I in 1955. From 1949 to 1955 he was lecturer at the Karlsruhe academy. Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal., Brücke-Museum), New York (Neue Gal.), Madrid (Mus. Thyssen-Bornemisza), Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Mus.), Essen (Folkwang-Mus.) a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit, P. Vogt: E. H., Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, 1965 a. others.
