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Artist or Maker: Erich Heckel (1883-1970)

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Provenance: Claus Gebhard, Wuppertal, by whom acquired from the Kunstverein Köln on 14 June 1917.
Acquired in 1976 and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Exhibited: Elberfeld, Museums Verein, Ausstellung aus Wuppertaler Privatbesitz, October 1920, no. 39.
Dusseldorf, Galerie Flechtheim, Edvard Munch und die Brücke, November - December 1921, no. 3.
Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Heckel-Ausstellung, March 1953, no. 28.
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Erich Heckel, September - November 1983, no. 53 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst.
Gottorf, Stiftung Schleswig-Hollsteinische Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, 1990-2004 (on long term loan from the present owner).

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Literature: P. Vogt, Erich Heckel, Monographie mit Werkverzeichnis, Recklinghausen, 1965, no. 1916/10 (illustrated).

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Notes: Heckel served as a medical orderly in Flanders during the First World War, volunteering for the Red Cross at the outset of the conflict. His experiences of treating the wounded behind the frontline found expression in a series of drawings, while wartime landscapes such as Frühling in Flandern (Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen; Vogt 1916/8) sought to record the war-ravaged terrain. The present work, Roter Steinbruch, resounds with the characteristic tension

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