Sonnenaufgang. 1914.
Woodcut.
Signed, dated "14" (corrected from 13) and titled. Copy aside from the edition. On Zanders laid paper (with watermark). 24.7 x 31.8 cm (9.7 x 12.5 in). Sheet: 58,5 x 46,3 cm (23 x 18,2 in).
Published in the 2nd portfolio of the "Kreis graphischer Künstler und Sammler", first annual bonus 1921, Verlag Arndt Beyer, Leipzig 1921. [AR].

• Copy aside from the edition.
• Motif from Heckel's second summer stay in Osterholz on the Flensburg Firth, where he stayed with Siddi for a few weeks until the outbreak of war.
• Unusual, simultaneous depiction of the sun and moon as dark discs above the coastal landscape.

PROVENANCE: Kurt Sponagel-Hirzel Collection (1887-1961), Zürich (with the collector's stamp Lugt 2929a).
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, 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).
Erich Heckel, Einfühlung und Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 31, 2020 - March 7, 2021, extended until June 20, 2021 (illu. on p. 235).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Renate Ebner, Andreas Gabelmann, Erich Heckel. Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 2: 1914-1968, Munich 2021, no. 640 H A (of C) (illu. in color).
Gerhart Söhn, Handbuch der Original-Graphik in deutschen Zeitschriften, Mappenwerken, Kunstbüchern und Katalogen (HDO) 1890-1933, vol. V, Düsseldorf 1993, no. 52002-3 (illu.).
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Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 296f., SHG no. 444 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, pp. 206f., SHG no. 463 (illu.).

In good condition. Slight mount staining. A smoothed crease in the lower right corne.