Knabe in der Tram. 1912.
Oil on canvas , doubled.
Hünecke 1912-54. Vogt 1912-19. Signed and dated in the left centre . 87 x 69 cm (34.2 x 27.1 in).
PROVENANCE: Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt am Main (1921).
Collection Dr. Friedrich A. Wöhler, Kassel (until 1957).
Galerie Wilhem Grosshennig, Düsseldorf (1958).
Collection F. W. Schlesinger, Hamburg (ab 1958).
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (since 1976 ).
EXHIBITION: Erich Heckel und Otto Mueller, Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt am Main, September 1921.
Erich Heckel, Galerie Wilhem Grosshennig, Düsseldorf March 1 - March 28, 1958, no. 6 (here titled: Knabe in der Straßenbahn).
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal (permanent loan 2010-2015).
Erich Heckel in der Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, Museum Gunzenhauser, January 17 - April 17, 2016 (color illu. on cover and in the invitation card) (permanent loan 2015-2018).
LITERATURE: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett 30, 1957, no. 307
Galerie Allervy, Tegernsee, August 1970
Hauswedell & Nolte 193, June 1973, no. 605.
"Heckel's art lies quiet, it has a very deep and pious sense that is more of a subtle echo or rather the resonance of what one at first feels in front of the canvas. Inittially he deters you, later he captures you even stronger." Franz Marc about Erich Heckel, 1912