ERICH HECKEL* (Doebeln 1883 - 1970 Radolfzell)

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  ERICH HECKEL* (Doebeln 1883 - 1970 Radolfzell)
  Woman with hat (Siddi?), 1911
  charcoal/paper, 33,5 x 44,2 cm
  signed E Heckel, dated 11
  
  ESTIMATE € 10000 - 15000
  STARTING PRICE € 10000
  
  Erich Heckel was a German expressionist painter and graphic artist. The architecture student who dropped out trained himself as a painter and graphic artist. In 1905, Heckel founded the artist group “Brücke” with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl in Dresden, which was later joined by Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde and Otto Mueller and which exhibited together. Passive members and folder subscribers were Gustav Schiefler and Rosa Schapire. Heckel spent a long time with Schmidt-Rottluff in Dangast on the North Sea; In 1909 he traveled to Italy. In Dresden, he entered into a studio with Kirchner. From 1909 to 1911 he stayed at the Moritzburg Ponds near Dresden with Kirchner and Pechstein, friends and models; The theme was the act in free movement and nature. Heckel spent the summer of 1911 with his future wife, the dancer Milda Frieda Georgi/Sidi Riha in Prerow; In the neighborhood were Marianne von Werefkin and Alexej Jawlensky from Neue Künstlervereinigung München. In 1912, he met Lyonel Feininger, Franz Marc and August Macke. The “Brücke” artists took part in the large Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne, where they presented themselves alongside the great French modern painters. In 1913, the “Brücke” dissolved. Heckel's first solo exhibition was at Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin. A lifelong friendship began with the young art historian and collector Walter Kaesbach. In 1914 he stayed with the painter Heinrich Nauen in Dilborn on the Lower Rhine. During the World War as a medic in Flanders he met Max Beckmann and James Ensor. After the end of the war, he became a founding member of the “Working Council for Art” and later a member of the National Gallery’s acquisitions commission. New acquaintances arose through the lawyer and poet Ernst Morwitz, a friend of Stefan George. In 1922, Heckel was commissioned to paint a room in the Angermuseum in Erfurt, the only surviving wall painting by the “Brücke” artists. In 1931 a large Heckel retrospective was held in Chemnitz. In 1937 Heckel was banned from exhibiting. As part of the “Degenerate Art” campaign, 729 of his works were removed from German museums. In 1944, Heckel's studio in Berlin and numerous works were destroyed by a bomb attack. In 1944, Heckel moved into the summer house of the architect Heinrich Johann Wurm in Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance. From 1949 to 1955 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe; His students included Peter Dreher and Klaus Arnold. In 1952 Heckel was a juror at the Iron and Steel art exhibition, and from 1952 to 1969 he was a board member/honourary board member of Deutscher Künstlerbund. In 1955 Heckel took part in documenta 1. Retrospectives were organized on the occasion of his 70th and 80th birthdays. Heckel's early, impasto style was inspired by Vincent van Gogh and French post-impressionism. In 1908/09 a transition to flat painting with liquid colors can be seen. Around 1910, a distinct group style was achieved, which was then abandoned in favor of more individual image solutions. Heckel found independence early on in his expressionist printmaking. After the First World War, Heckel developed a more cosmopolitan classicism, with a greater proximity to nature and a brighter palette; Pictures of cities and harbors were created, as were nudes on the beach. Flower still lifes with complex backgrounds were also created. In his later work one notices a greater concentration on the flatness of the image and a muted colouring.
  
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