Lot 311 D

According to information provided by Hans Geissler, this woodcut is an individual print made by hand, in which the colours are applied to the block individually and with a great wealth of nuance. Every single print is thus provided with the character of a unique work, because no impression is the same as any other.
The well-known woodcut is an incunabulum of Expressionism - the Brücke artists had used the unwieldy medium of the woodcut as a point of orientation in the development of their painterly means, thus finding their way to their typically Expressionist style of painting.
“Weiße Pferde” (White Horses) was created in 1912, when Erich Heckel spent his summer on the islands of Hiddensee and Fehmarn. The scene clearly demonstrates the artist's mastery of spiritually grasping a motif that had captivated him and giving form to it in the greatest intensity possible with remarkably limited means.