Dünen bei Den Haan. 1916.
WatercolorWatercolor.
Lower right signed, dated and inscribed. On fine wove paper. 21.2 x 26 cm (8.3 x 10.2 in), the full sheet.
[KT].

• A particularly beautiful watercolor, spontaneously created plein-air.
• Sovereign depiction of light and ambience.
• In 1916, Heckel was intensively occupied with a series of works depicting dune landscapes.
• The watercolor is subject to a loan inquiry from the Ghent Museum.

We are grateful to Mrs Renate Ebner and Mr 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 (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032, acquired from the above in 1984).

EXHIBITION: Galerie Thomas, Munich, 1983, cat. no. 22 (no illu.).
Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin, 1983, cat. no. 38.
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, pp. 300-301, SHG no. 453 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 210, SHG no. 473 (illu.).

In good condition, colors in fresh impression. Sheet slightly wavy due to the technique. Faint, smoothed small creases in the lower left and right corners. Isolated tiny tears (max. 0.4 cm) to the upper edge of the sheet.