Erich Heckel (1883 Döbeln - 1970 Radolfzell) (F), Bewachsene Düne'

watercolour over pencil drawing on handmade paper, 51 cm x 68 cm sheet dimension, signed, 33 dated, titled, inscribed 'Dünen' at the lower edge of the picture, with a dry stamp 'Friedenau Ars', partly slightly stain spotted, mounted on verso, Provenance: art collector from NRW, The watercolour is registered in the artist's estate. We thank the estate of Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen, for their scholarly support. Information: For this object the VAT of 19 % will be charged on the hammer price + buyer's premium (regular taxation).

Erich Heckel is considered one of the main representatives of German Expressionism as a painter and sculptor. During his architectural studies in Dresden, the artist began to paint autodidactically under the influence of Edvard Munch, van Gogh and the Fauves. With his fellow students Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Heckel founded the world-famous artists' group ''Die Brücke'', which saw itself as a new generation of artists. The two watercolours are dated 1933 and 1943, before the artist moved to Lake Constance and took up his professorship at the Karlsruhe Academy. The overgrown dunes and slopes, the landscape captured by the artist, tell of quieter days. Days in nature, far from urban Berlin. Nor do they date from the time when the artist uses pointed forms and powerful colours to create directly and to transfer his understanding of art into the works. It seems more dignified, calmer, and yet in the pencil drawing of the watercolours one recognises the artist's hand and his experiences from the decades before.