Erich Heckel – Kunsthütte Chemnitz

Erich Heckel (Döbeln 1883 – 1970 Hemmenhofen)

Erich Heckel – Paintings from the years 1906-1930
Catalog with 2 original woodcuts, 15 pages and 16 b / w plates
Chemnitz, Städtisches Museum, 1931
Catalogue raisonné: Ebner/Gabelmann 828 H – 829 H, Dube 346 -347
Literature: Riffkind 1057, Jentsch 165, Reed 69

1. Untitled (folded cover)
   Color woodcut 18.8 x 91.7 cm
2. Untitled (flyleaf)
   Woodcut 17.1 x 28.2 cm

Rare and wanted exhibition catalog by the artist with the original color woodcut (16.9 x 91.7 cm) printed from two plates in brown and black, which extends in leporello form beyond the cover to both inner covers and endplates.
Loose cover, minimally discolored due to age, otherwise very good and clean copy.

The front attachment with the important group picture of the Brücke artists with Heckel, Kirchner, Otto Mueller and Schmidt-Rottluff, next to it a woman with two boys.
The rear attachment with the city panorama of Chemnitz with a portrait of Heckel, who is balancing on a tightrope.
The beautiful catalog of Heckel’s early work was published on the occasion of the Chemnitz exhibition from March 18 to April 30, 1931.
“The exhibition in the ‘Kunsthütte Chemnitz’ was Heckel’s last major exhibition in a free Germany before the Nazis came to power, who, during the years of their reign of terror, had more than 700 works from public collections confiscated by Heckel, sold abroad or partially burned. » (Jentsch)