Vor Sonnenaufgang. 1906.
Three Woodcut in colorson one sheet.
Ebner/Gabelmann 105 H I, II and III. Dube H 26. Single prints presumably belatedly signed and dated. Each monogrammed in printing block. Three of the nine known copies. On laid paper. Each ca. 8.3 x 15 cm (3.2 x 5.9 in). Sheet: 30,7 x 17,1 cm (12 x 6,7 in).
Printed in three different states, each from two blocks in red-brown and black, red-brown and darkblue and red-brown and darkgreen.
• Extremely rare.
• All three states of this expresive color woodcut on one sheet.
• Outstanding example of Erich Heckel's great fondness of experimenting.

PROVENANCE: Walter Kern Collection, Davos (recto and verso with the hand-inscribed collector's stamp, Lugt 1567a).
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (since 2000: Galerie Kornfeld, with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: 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. 313, SHG no. 481 (with illu.).
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Auktion Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, June 23, 2000, lot 46.
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, pp. 142f., SHG no. 316 (with illu. on p. 143).