Blinder Irrer. 1914.
Pencil drawing.
Lower left signed and dated and barely legibly titled. On creme paper. 49.8 x 33.8 cm (19.6 x 13.3 in), visible part (in mount).
Verso with the full-page pencil drawing of a girl squatting in a boat. [JS].

• Extreme composition and motif from the beginning of the First World War.
• For the expressive art of Expressionism, living through extreme states of mind and an emotionalized view of reality are of central importance.
• The preoccupation with emotionally and mentally extreme situations demonstrates the contemporary fascination with the subconscious and the uncontrolled.
• Created in direct connection with Heckel's painting "Irre beim Essen" (Hüneke 1914-25).
• Extensive exhibition history.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp on the mount. 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 (illu. on p. 309).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 294f., SHG no. 439 (illu. recto and verso).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 204, SHG no. 458 (illu.).

Good overall impression. Slightly browned and creased. Upper right corner professionally repaired. Primarily in the upper and lower margins with slight paper thinning in places, most clearly in the upper left. Isolated superficial faint rubbing. Mounted all the way around (on both sides).