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Erich Heckel
Einladung zur Ausstellung K.G. "Brücke" in der Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin, 1912.
Woodcut in colors from two blocks
Estimate:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,280 Sold:
€ 11,250 / $ 12,037 (incl. surcharge)
Einladung zur Ausstellung K.G. "Brücke" in der Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin. 1912.
Woodcut in colors from two blocks.
Ebner/Gabelmann 539 H b 1 (of b 2). Dube H 225 b. Bolliger 46. Monogrammed in the block. On sandy cardboard. 9.7 x 7.5 cm (3.8 x 2.9 in). Sheet: 14,9 x 12 cm (5,8 x 4,7 in).
Title vignette on a two-part folding card with the color woodcut and two pages of text. [KT].
• One of only six copies mentioned in the catalog raisonneé, of which one at each the Brücke-Museum, Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• For the exhibition at the acclaimed Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, who had a program that was formative for Modernism.
• Particularly fine color print from two blocks.
• To date only two copies were offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
PROVENANCE: Private collection Baden-Württemberg (until May 28, 1990: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer).
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032, acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).
Erich Heckel. Einfühlung und Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 31, 2020 - March 7, 2021, p. 168 (with illu.).
LITERATURE: Hans Bolliger, E. W. Kornfeld, Ausstellung Künstlergruppe Brücke. Jahresmappen 1906-1912, Bern 1958, no. 46 (with illu.).
Annemarie und Wolf-Dieter Dube, Erich Heckel. Das graphische Werk, vol. I Holzschnitte, New York 1964, no. 225 b (with black-and-white illu.).
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 150th auction, 19./20. Jahrhundert, catalog I, May 28, 1990, lot 178 (with black-and-white illu.).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 119, SHG no. 81 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 183, SHG no. 412 (with illu.).
Meike Hoffmann, Leben und Schaffen der Künstlergruppe "Brücke" 1905 bis 1913, mit einem kommentierten Werkverzeichnis der Geschäfts- und Ausstellungsgrafik, Berlin 2005, pp. 300f.
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Gemeinsames Ziel und eigene Wege. Die "Brücke" und ihr Nachwirken, Munich 2009, on cover.
Renate Ebner, Andreas Gabelmann, Erich Heckel. Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. I 1903-1913, Munich 2021, 539 H (with illu. of this copy).
Woodcut in colors from two blocks.
Ebner/Gabelmann 539 H b 1 (of b 2). Dube H 225 b. Bolliger 46. Monogrammed in the block. On sandy cardboard. 9.7 x 7.5 cm (3.8 x 2.9 in). Sheet: 14,9 x 12 cm (5,8 x 4,7 in).
Title vignette on a two-part folding card with the color woodcut and two pages of text. [KT].
• One of only six copies mentioned in the catalog raisonneé, of which one at each the Brücke-Museum, Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• For the exhibition at the acclaimed Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, who had a program that was formative for Modernism.
• Particularly fine color print from two blocks.
• To date only two copies were offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
PROVENANCE: Private collection Baden-Württemberg (until May 28, 1990: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer).
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032, acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).
Erich Heckel. Einfühlung und Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 31, 2020 - March 7, 2021, p. 168 (with illu.).
LITERATURE: Hans Bolliger, E. W. Kornfeld, Ausstellung Künstlergruppe Brücke. Jahresmappen 1906-1912, Bern 1958, no. 46 (with illu.).
Annemarie und Wolf-Dieter Dube, Erich Heckel. Das graphische Werk, vol. I Holzschnitte, New York 1964, no. 225 b (with black-and-white illu.).
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 150th auction, 19./20. Jahrhundert, catalog I, May 28, 1990, lot 178 (with black-and-white illu.).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 119, SHG no. 81 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 183, SHG no. 412 (with illu.).
Meike Hoffmann, Leben und Schaffen der Künstlergruppe "Brücke" 1905 bis 1913, mit einem kommentierten Werkverzeichnis der Geschäfts- und Ausstellungsgrafik, Berlin 2005, pp. 300f.
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Gemeinsames Ziel und eigene Wege. Die "Brücke" und ihr Nachwirken, Munich 2009, on cover.
Renate Ebner, Andreas Gabelmann, Erich Heckel. Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. I 1903-1913, Munich 2021, 539 H (with illu. of this copy).
By the end of 1911, the Dresden "Brücke" artists had moved to Berlin and were looking for established exhibition venues comparable to those they had in Dresden with the galleries Richter and Arnold. Through Max Pechstein, who had been living in Berlin since 1908, they attracted the interest of Galerie Fritz Gurlitt. The latter's son Wolfgang Gurlitt continued to run the business, which was founded as early as in 1880, and he made his rooms on Potsdamer Strasse available for the "Brücke" exhibition in April 1912. Erich Heckel designed the invitation card with a two-part folding card with a title woodcut. In addition to the invitation text in typescript on the inside left, those invited found the names of the exhibiting artists on the opposite. Heckel chose a woodcut in black, blue and olive green for the title vignette. The group's name "KG. Brücke" printed in black letters on olive green dominates the motif, consisting of two triangular shapes with female nudes and two arches framing the sides with ornamental zigzag lines. The way Heckel puts the details of the motifs together is reminiscent of fabric and wall paintings with which the "Brücke" artists Heckel and Kirchner, but also Otto Mueller, decorated their studios. [MvL]
433
Erich Heckel
Einladung zur Ausstellung K.G. "Brücke" in der Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin, 1912.
Woodcut in colors from two blocks
Estimate:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,280 Sold:
€ 11,250 / $ 12,037 (incl. surcharge)