Knieende in Landschaft. 1903.
Linocut.
Ebner/Gabelmann 1 H. Signed and dated as well as monogrammiert "H" in the printing block. Only to date known copy. On firm grayish copper plate printing paper. 8 x 9.8 cm (3.1 x 3.8 in). Sheet: 18 x 19,5 cm (7 x 7,7 in).
[JS].
• Rare. Erich Heckel's first print.
• Only to date known copy.
• Heckel's fascination for sharp contour lines and the black-white contrast commenced with this sheet.
• Fascinating minimalistic-expressive scene: The Art Nouveau element of the filigree branch in combination with the pathos of the silhouette figure's expressive gesture.

PROVENANCE: Walter Kern Collection (with the collector's stamp on the reverse, L.1567a).
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)
Erich Heckel. Einfühlung und Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum Bernried, October 31, 2020 - March 7, 2021, p. 61 (with illu.).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 94, SHG no. 28 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 141, SHG no. 312 (with illu.).

"The very first prints that we [the artist group "Brücke"] made, we cut in linoleum. I made a few things in linoleum as early as in Chemnitz [..]".
Erich Heckel, quoted from: Ebner/Gabelmann, vol. 1, p. 18