Hafeneinfahrt in Ostende. 1916.
Etching.
Dube R 137. Ebner/Gabelmann 710 R I (of II B). Signed, dated and inscribed "Probe". Titled "Hafeneinf.9.6." by hand in lower margin. Monogrammed and dated in the plate. Only known copy from the first state. On firm paper. 14.7 x 19.4 cm (5.7 x 7.6 in). Sheet: 47,3 x 35,4 cm (18,6 x 13,9 in).
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• Only known copy from the first state, in which the piles under the jetty are just slightly adumbrated and with fewer lines in front of the housse in right.
• Clear print image with subtle lines and a softly nuanced plate tone.
• Copies from the second state are at, among others, the Brücke-Museum, Berlin, the Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the Buchheim Museum, Bernried.
• Heckel also made a painting with the same motif: "Hafeneinfahrt in Ostende" (Hünecke 1916-30).
• While Heckel completed most of his paintings from the war year 1916 during his furlough, this etching and the similar drawing of the jetty in the Gerlinger Collection were made on site.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp on the reverse, 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).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 299, SHG no. 450 (fig.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 208, SHG no. 469 (fig.).

"I am still waiting for trial proofs of two etchings, I had already engraved the plates in Gent this summer [..]."
Erich Heckel, letter from November 22, 1916, copy in the estate's arrchive.

In very good condition. Broad margin with very few minimally rubbed spots and color splashes.