Bergwasser. 1925.
Watercolor and gouache over carpenter's pencil.
Signed and dated in lower right of the image. Titled on the reverse. On firm brownish paper (embossed "David Cox drawing"). 56.2 x 69.8 cm (22.1 x 27.4 in), the full sheet. [JS].
The work is mentioned in the Gerlinger Collection with the SHG number 516 a.
• Large-size watercolor with a marvelous free composition, a particularly remarkable example of Heckel's graphic gift.
• Atmospheric Ticino spring landscape, in which Heckel stages the clear white snow on the peaks and the snowmelt in an expresssive mountain setting.
• More than three decades after he had made the watercolor, Heckel created the painting "Im Bleniotal" (1956, also part of the Gerlinger Collection).

PROVENANCE: Cultural Office Ludwigshafen (Municipal Art Collection, presumably acquired from the artist, until 1954).
Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen (reacquired from teh above in 1954).
From Erich Heckel's estate.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 2012, with the collector's stamp on the reverse, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Cultural Office Ludwigshafen (with the stamp and the hand-written inventory number on the reverse).
Erich Heckel, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1953, cat. no. 77.
Erich Heckel, Landesmuseum Münster, 1953, cat. no. 127.
Erich Heckel, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, 1960, cat. no. 6.
Erich Heckel, Galerie Günther Franke, Munich, 1965, cat. no. 19.
Erich Heckel, Kunstverein Säckingen/Bodensee-Museum Friedrichshafen, 1973, cat. no. 36 (with illu.).
Erich Heckel, Brücke-Museum, Berlin, 1976, cat. no. 91.
Brücke-Museum, Berlin (permanent loan from the artist's estate, 1976-1994).
Erich Heckel. Einfühlung und Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 31, 2020 - March 7, 2021, p. 303 (with illu.).
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, from before 2020 until 2022).

LITERATURE: Gustav Barthel, Deutsche Aquarelle der Gegenwart, no place 1957, illu. p. 10.
Heinz Köhn, Erich Heckel. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Munich 1959, black-and-white illu. p. 50.