Weinberge im Frühling. 1928.
Watercolor over pencil and black chalks.
Signed, dated and titled in the center of the right margin. On J. W. Zanders laid paper (with the watermark). 55.8 x 69.6 cm (21.9 x 27.4 in), the full sheet.
Illustration inscribed with the abbreviations on the colors (in pencil), presumably executed in the studio at a later point. [CH].

• In spring of the year the work was made, Heckel traveled to Franconia, just as he had the year before.
• Heckel presumably depicts the view from Würzburg's Steinberg down the Main river over the valley with the adjacent hilly Franconian landscape.
• Heckel dissolves the landscape and the slopes of the vineyards into areas of color and rectangular flowing forms.

The work is registered in the Erich Heckel Estate, Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance. We are grateful to Mrs Renate Ebner and Mr Hans Geissler for the kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 2001, with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Erich Heckel. Watercolors and Drawings, Würzburg, October/November 1975, cat. no. 6.
Brücke-Museum, Berlin (permanent loan from the estate, 1976-1994).
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: Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 237, SHG no. 529 (illu.).

Large-format sheet in good condition. Slightly wavy in the margins due to the technique, with a few faint creases and isolated fine rubbings. Isolated small tears in the upper and lower edge. Fine circular print mark in the yellow color area on the left.