Durchblick auf den See. 1949.
India Ink, with wash.
Lower right signed and dated. Lower left titled. On off-white paper. 31 x 43 cm (12.2 x 16.9 in), the full sheet. [JS].

• Lake scene spontanously captured in an expressive line.
• This work seems to have been decisive for the color woodcut "Am Seeufer" from 1953, in which he rendered the landscape as an ornamental structure of forms and colors.
• What is characteristic of both works is the virtuoso composition around the blank center with the lake's calm water surface.

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

EXHIBITION: Erich Heckel in Kärten, Kärntner Landesgalerie Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt 1969, no. 64.
Bodenseelandschaften, Schloßhofgalerie Lindau, Lindau 1982, no. 40.
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).
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. 342, SHG no. 549 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 255, SHG no. 575 (with illu.).

In good condition. Slightly faded and slightly evenly discolored. Minimally scuffed in places of edges and corners.