Erich Heckel:
Picture "Zinnias in a Jug" (1938) (Unique piece)
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Picture "Zinnias in a Jug" (1938) (Unique piece)
Erich Heckel:
Picture "Zinnias in a Jug" (1938) (Unique piece)

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unique piece | signed | dated | watercolour over pencil | framed | size 87 x 71.5 cm

Product no. IN-950973.R1
Picture "Zinnias in a Jug" (1938) (Unique piece)
Erich Heckel: Picture "Zinnias in a Jug" (1938) (Unique p...

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Picture "Zinnias in a Jug" (1938) (Unique piece)

Floral still lifes run through Erich Heckel's entire oeuvre. The intensely radiant choice of colours in this watercolour presents a summery flower arrangement of zinnias in a jug, appearing in their splendour as if they were "just picked".

The work was created in 1938, one year after Erich Heckel was banned from exhibiting, and the Nazis defamed his works as "degenerate art". As a result, the majority of his works were confiscated, burnt and destroyed.

That year, Heckel retreated to his summer studio on the Flensburg Fjord, where he devoted himself intensively to watercolour painting, which for him became equivalent to oil painting, rather than just a preliminary study medium. The present unique piece thus also documents an art-historical turning point in Heckel's oeuvre.

Watercolour over pencil, 1938, signed and dated. The work is registered in the archive of the estate of Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance. Motif size/sheet size 62 x 47.5 cm. Size in frame 87 x 71.5 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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