Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, 169th auction Modern Art June 20-22, 1979, lot 512. Heinz Spielmann (editor), Die Maler der Brücke. Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 290, SHG 427 (with illu.). Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (editors), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 198, SHG 444 (with illu.) I.Woesthoff, "..die Schwere unseres Weges kann wohl Freude gebrauchen" - Erich Heckel und Gustav Schiefler, in: Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (editor), Gemeinsames Ziel und eigene Wege. Die „Brücke“ und ihr Nachwirken, Munich 2009, p. 66, illu. 9. In the summer of 1913, Erich Heckel visited the “Brücke“ patron Gustav Schiefler at his vacation home near Mellingstedt/Hamburg. Mellingstedter lock, located right below the house, is the motif of the present beautiful drawing. Heckel put main focus on the ramp used for rowing and paddle boats, which leads up to the embankment next to the river bank on the right. In this work Erich Heckel"s architecture studies become obvious. He shows the structural details with great precision, while the steeply rising bank, densely overgrown with trees, is sketched with expressive dynamic. In good condition. All in all minimall discolored. Right and bottom margin slightly irregular from the making. [EH]