Campagna-Landschaft. 1909.
India ink drawing.
Lower right signed and dated, lower left titled. On strong, slightly grayish laid paper. 34.5 x 42.8 cm (13.5 x 16.8 in), the full sheet.
[AR].

• Made during Erich Heckel's Italian journey in 1909.
• Both this drawing and a watercolor (cf. SHG no. 367) show this motif.
• Remarkable example of the artist's way of rendering his pictorial innovations in different techniques.

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.

PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (until 1977).
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Erich Heckel 1883-1970. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Ausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag des Malers, Städtische Galerie, Würzburg, July 3 - Seeptember 11, 1983, cat. no. 8.
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).
Erich Heckel. Einfühlung und Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 31, 2020 – March 7, 2021, p. 108 (with illu).
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. 172, SHG no. 193 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, pp. 162f., SHG no. 366 (with illu.).

In good condition. With a vertical kink running through the center, which is, however, not untypical of works from these days. With a tiny loss in the upper left corner and a faint kink in the right margin. All four corners with a tiny pinhole.