Erich Heckel:
Picture "Raincloud" (1919) (Unique piece)
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Picture "Raincloud" (1919) (Unique piece)
Erich Heckel:
Picture "Raincloud" (1919) (Unique piece)

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unique piece | signed | dated | titled | watercolour and charcoal on paper | framed | size 54 x 66.5 cm

Product no. IN-950521.R1
Picture "Raincloud" (1919) (Unique piece)
Erich Heckel: Picture "Raincloud" (1919) (Unique piece)

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Picture "Raincloud" (1919) (Unique piece)

From 1913, Heckel spent the summer and autumn painting and drawing by the Flensburg Fjord in the small village of Osterholz, where he bought a house in 1919. The high-contrast watercolour, coloured in green, grey and blue, provides a vivid depiction of the local landscape. The artist seems to have set up his easel in a field to document a gathering rain cloud over a hill.

Watercolour and charcoal on thin paper, 1919, signed, dated and titled "Regenwolke Erich Heckel 19". The authenticity of the work has been confirmed by Renate Ebner (Erich Heckel estate). Motif size/sheet size 31.4 x 45 cm. Size in frame 54 x 66.5 cm as shown.

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About Erich Heckel

Erich Heckel (1883-1970) is one of the most important artists of German Expressionism. In 1905, together with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl, he founded the legendary artists' group "Die Brücke" in Dresden, which later Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde and Otto Mueller joined.

After World War I Heckel developed a new, cosmopolitan classicism that was accompanied by a more naturalistic approach and a brightening of the palette. In the 1920s, he produced numerous landscape works, including the unusually large charcoal drawing of the 'Westerholz Mill', which is still a popular touristic destination in Schleswig-Holstein.

Erich Heckel's works are represented in the world's leading museums and collections.

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