Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel
Weinberge im Frühling
1928.
Watercolor over pencil and black chalks.
Signed, dated and titled in the center of the right margin. On J. W. Zanders laid paper (with the watermark). 55.8 x 69.6 cm (21.9 x 27.4 in), the full sheet.
Illustration inscribed with the abbreviations on the colors (in pencil), presumably executed in the studio at a later point. [CH].
• In spring of the year the work was made, Heckel traveled to Franconia, just as he had the year before.
• Heckel presumably depicts the view from Würzburg"s Steinberg down the Main river over the valley with the adjacent hilly Franconian landscape.
• Heckel dissolves the landscape and the slopes of the vineyards into areas of color and rectangular flowing forms
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The work is registered in 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.