Am Fenster. 1917.
Pencil drawing.
Signed, dated and titled. On creme laid paper. 44.2 x 22.5 cm (17.4 x 8.8 in), size of sheet. [JS].

• With expressive strokes and in an extreme portrait format, Heckel stages the bourgeois interior in the tense times of the First World War.

PROVENANCE: Nachlass Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen.
Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (1988 vom Vorgenannten erworben, mit dem Sammlerstempel, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 302, SHG no. 456 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 211, SHG no. 476 (illu.).

In good condition. Due to earlier mounting, some slight creases and pressure marks in the corners as well as a small paper damage and a small tear in the upper left corner. Partially minimally unfresh in the area of the edges.