Geißblatt und Steintopf. 1939.
Watercolor.
Signed, dated and titled in right center. On off-white laid paper. 69.5 x 55.2 cm (27.3 x 21.7 in), the full sheet. [CH].

• Balanced watercolor with the qualities of a painting.
• Heckel expands the classic flower still life in the background by the depiction of an artwork, presumably a color woodcut, in an eye-catching frame.
• The loose-hanging branches and the honeysuckle's blossoms, the indistinct artwork and the stone pot's decorative makeup give the painting an ornamental aesthetic appeal.

The work is registered in the archive of 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: Erich Heckel Estate, Hemmenhofen.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032, acquired from the above in 1973).

EXHIBITION: Erich Heckel, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt am Main, July 1947, no. 23 (leaflet).
Erich Heckel, Neue Galerie, Kiel 1948, cat. no. 26.
Erich Heckel. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen (Ausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag des Malers), July 3 - September 11, 1983, Städtische Galerie Würzburg, cat. no. 91.
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, p. 333, SHG no. 526 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 246, SHG no. 550 (with illu.).