Vente: 550 / Evening Sale 07 juin 2024 à Munich 
Lot 124000448
Lot 124000448
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124000448
Erich Heckel
Klare Luft, 1921.
Oil on canvas
Estimation: € 100,000 / $ 107,000
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Klare Luft. 1921.
Oil on canvas.
Lower right signed and dated. Once more signed and dated on the reverse. Titled and inscribed "Voigt 1921/10" on the reverse of the stretcher. 83 x 96 cm (32.6 x 37.7 in). [EH].
More works from the Dr. Maier-Mohr Collection are offered in our Contemporary Art Day Sale on Friday, June 7, 2024 and in our Modern Art Day Sale on Saturday, June 8, 2024 – see collection catalog "A Private Collection - Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr".
• The bathers as silent observers of the infinite and majestic sublimity of nature.
• Heckel's reinterpretation of his landscape painting.
• Mystifying reflection of light, clouds, and water on the Baltic Sea.
• From 1919, the artist and his wife spent their summers at their inspiring retreat in Osterholz on the Flensburg Firth.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin.
Galerie Thomas, Munich (1983).
Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr Collection (acquired from the above).
Ever since family-owned.
EXHIBITION: Erich Heckel, Gemälde, Aquarelle u. s. w. im Krönungsgang des Schlosses, Städtisches Museum, February 12 - March 18, 1928, cat. no. 13.
Erich Heckel, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, October 3 - November 3, 1935, no. 4 (dated 1922).
Erich Heckel. Zum 100. Geburtstag, Galerie Thomas, Munich, September 9 - October 31, 1983, cat. no. 61.
LITERATURE: Andreas Hüneke, Erich Heckel. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Wandbilder und Skulpturen, vol. II (1919-1964), Munich 2017, no. 121-20 (illu.).
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Paul Vogt, Erich Heckel, Recklinghausen 1965, plate 173.
Christie's, London, June 28, 1982, lot 33.
Janina Dahlmanns, "Hoch immer der Himmel über der weit in die Tiefe fliehenden Fläche des Meeres". Die Ostsee und die Stilentwicklung Erich Heckels, in: M. Moeller, Erich Heckel an der Ostsee, Munich 2006, p. 31 (illu.)
Janina Dahlmanns, Erich Heckels Werk der Zwischenkriegsjahre 1919-1937, Hamburg 2016, p. 135.
"It is revealing that Heckel was drawn to the Baltic Sea. You have to see this vast body of water with your own eyes to understand that it is can reflect light like a gigantic mirror, with an intensity that is not limited to the coastal strip, but also touches nearby stretches of land in a way that you can tell the distance to the sea from the high and clear air - it is no coincidence that Heckel would name one of his paintings after this phenomenon."
Paul Vogt, Erich Heckel, Recklinghausen 1965, p. 63.
Oil on canvas.
Lower right signed and dated. Once more signed and dated on the reverse. Titled and inscribed "Voigt 1921/10" on the reverse of the stretcher. 83 x 96 cm (32.6 x 37.7 in). [EH].
More works from the Dr. Maier-Mohr Collection are offered in our Contemporary Art Day Sale on Friday, June 7, 2024 and in our Modern Art Day Sale on Saturday, June 8, 2024 – see collection catalog "A Private Collection - Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr".
• The bathers as silent observers of the infinite and majestic sublimity of nature.
• Heckel's reinterpretation of his landscape painting.
• Mystifying reflection of light, clouds, and water on the Baltic Sea.
• From 1919, the artist and his wife spent their summers at their inspiring retreat in Osterholz on the Flensburg Firth.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin.
Galerie Thomas, Munich (1983).
Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr Collection (acquired from the above).
Ever since family-owned.
EXHIBITION: Erich Heckel, Gemälde, Aquarelle u. s. w. im Krönungsgang des Schlosses, Städtisches Museum, February 12 - March 18, 1928, cat. no. 13.
Erich Heckel, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, October 3 - November 3, 1935, no. 4 (dated 1922).
Erich Heckel. Zum 100. Geburtstag, Galerie Thomas, Munich, September 9 - October 31, 1983, cat. no. 61.
LITERATURE: Andreas Hüneke, Erich Heckel. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Wandbilder und Skulpturen, vol. II (1919-1964), Munich 2017, no. 121-20 (illu.).
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Paul Vogt, Erich Heckel, Recklinghausen 1965, plate 173.
Christie's, London, June 28, 1982, lot 33.
Janina Dahlmanns, "Hoch immer der Himmel über der weit in die Tiefe fliehenden Fläche des Meeres". Die Ostsee und die Stilentwicklung Erich Heckels, in: M. Moeller, Erich Heckel an der Ostsee, Munich 2006, p. 31 (illu.)
Janina Dahlmanns, Erich Heckels Werk der Zwischenkriegsjahre 1919-1937, Hamburg 2016, p. 135.
"It is revealing that Heckel was drawn to the Baltic Sea. You have to see this vast body of water with your own eyes to understand that it is can reflect light like a gigantic mirror, with an intensity that is not limited to the coastal strip, but also touches nearby stretches of land in a way that you can tell the distance to the sea from the high and clear air - it is no coincidence that Heckel would name one of his paintings after this phenomenon."
Paul Vogt, Erich Heckel, Recklinghausen 1965, p. 63.
It was during these days that Erich Heckel approached an expressive realism that would define his later paintings. The two seated women on the beach, a well-known motif in the work of Heckel and the Expressionists, recede into the background before the overwhelming landscape. The women form a contemplative unity with the landscape, the fascination that it exerts was so aptly described in Paul Vogt's 1965 monograph on Erich Heckel about our painting: “It is significant that it was the Baltic Sea to which Heckel felt drawn. You have to have experienced this vast expanse of water for yourself to understand that it is capable of reflecting the light like a gigantic mirror, with an intensity that is not limited to the coastal strip alone, but also encompasses the nearest areas of land, in such a way that you can already recognize the proximity of the sea from the high and clear air - it is no coincidence that Heckel gave one of his paintings this name.”
It is the changing phenomena of light that Erich Heckel explores intensively. The sun's rays that break through the dense clouds can be traced in the damp haze above the sea right up to the surface of the water. This phenomenon is reflected by the glassy water. It is precisely this sublime moment that Erich Heckel places at the heart of his depiction.
It is the changing phenomena of light that Erich Heckel explores intensively. The sun's rays that break through the dense clouds can be traced in the damp haze above the sea right up to the surface of the water. This phenomenon is reflected by the glassy water. It is precisely this sublime moment that Erich Heckel places at the heart of his depiction.
124000448
Erich Heckel
Klare Luft, 1921.
Oil on canvas
Estimation: € 100,000 / $ 107,000
Les informations sur la commission d´achat, les taxes et le droit de suite sont disponibles quatre semaines avant la vente.
