Akrobatinnen. 1911.
Etching.
Signed and belatedly dated. Signed and once more dated by Sidi Heckel in bottom margin. One of 6 known copies. On firm wove paper. 16.5 x 14 cm (6.4 x 5.5 in). Sheet: 31,5 x 29 cm (12,4 x 11,4 in).
[KT].
• A copy from this state with vivid surface etching has never been offered on the auction market before (source: artprice.com).
• Of 7 registered prints of the motif, 4 are in museums and one in the estate.
• Created after the artist had moved to Berlin in 1911, where Heckel encountered a new repertoire of motifs in cabarets, theaters and ballrooms.
• As a member of the Brücke, Heckel helped printmaking to a new, unique importance for Expressionism.

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

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Private collection Southern Germany.

LITERATURE: Renate Ebner, Andreas Gabelmann, Hans Geissler, Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, ed. by Erich-Heckel Foundation, Munich 2021, vol. 1: 1903-1913, no. 517 R II.
Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, Erich Heckel: Das graphische Werk, vol. 2: Radierungen, Lithographien, New York 1965, no. 94 II (of II).