Etching with plate tone.
Dube R 138. Ebner/Gabelmann 709 R. Signed, dated and titled. One of 10 known copies. On firm grayish paper. 19.7 x 16.7 cm. Sheet: 47,5 x 36,3 cm.
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- Strong print with striking plate tone in which the ten known copies strongly differ. - Eventful seascape, the choppy sea corresponds to the menacing clouds. - The cross in the background makes this seacape, which was made during the war, an apocalyptic vison. - Made in context of Heckel's famous and today destroyed painting "Madonna von Ostende". - Rare. 4 of 10 known copies are museum-owned: Museum Folkwang, Essen, Staasgalerie Stuttgart, Brücke-Museum, Berlin and Kunsthalle Kiel.
LITERATURE: Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 209, SHG no. 47.
Erich Heckel 
