Berge im Winter. 1948.
Watercolor and color chalks.
Signed, dated and titled in lower right. On off-white wove paper. 55.5 x 69.3 cm (21.8 x 27.2 in), the full sheet. [JS].

• In 1948 Heckel went on a jorney to Switzerland, where he made, apart from this watercolor, the painting "Winterlandschaft" (SHG 574) with the same motif.
• Heckel painted the Grisons mountain: the view from Fidaz, a small village near Films, to the south over the Hinterrheingraben to the Kirchalphorn and the Wenglispitz.
• Document of Heckel's poised use of the blank paper, which the "Brücke" artist employed for his landscape compositions in a kind of negative method.

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).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).
Erich Heckel. Einfühlung und Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 31, 2020 – March 7, 2021, p. 366 (with illu).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 340, SHG no. 547 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 254, SHG no. 573 (with illu.).

In good condition. Minimally discolored and with faint rubbed spots in places of edges.