Berg im Allgäu. 1921.
Watercolor over pencil.
Signed, dated and inscribed with the female gender symbol, as well as titled in lower left. On G. Fichtner laid paper (with watermark). 38 x 46 cm (14.9 x 18.1 in), the full sheet.
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• Part of a private collection for more than 40 years.
• Impressive mountain landscape composed in strong and dramatic colors.
• In spring 1921 Erich Heckel visited the Allgäu mountains for the first time and would make them one of his key motifs.
• The same year he made the painting "Alpental" with the same motif, today it is in the Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

The work is documented at the Erich Heckel Estate, Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance. We are grateful to Ms Renate Ebner and Mr Hans Geissler for their kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Düsseldorf.
Private collection (acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: Ausgewählte Meisterwerke des 20. Jahrhunderts, Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Düsseldorf, October 15, 1977 to late February 1978 (with color illu. on p. 14).