Picture "Raincloud" (1919) (Unique piece)

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
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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.
Painting with glazing watercolours, that are characterised by their transparency, which let deeper layers and painting surfaces shine through.
Often the paper surface is omitted. This contributes significantly to the effect of the work. The aquarelle or watercolour painting requires skilful use of colour, as it dries quickly and corrections are almost impossible.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a type of modern art, that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which for the first time a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.