Expressively  Shining  South

Heckendorf, Franz (Berlin 1888 – Munich 1965). Mediterranean Landscape. Charming little town on the coast with lots of bays on the foot of a mountain ridge. Front right

as typical for the Turkish minarets, rising above and into the mountains, along with sherifs running around for the muezzins, as generally

the  whole  arrangement  of  the  mosque ,

comprising a tower-like further building and ascending over the town,

is  grasped  pictorially  beautifully .

Further boats + faceless figurines, among these mule rider. Watercolor over pencil. Inscribed with the latter lower right: Franz Heckendorf (19)39. 39.7 x 48.7 cm.

Literature

Kestner Museum Hanover, catalogues of the special exhibitions XVII, 1918; Joachim Kirchner, Franz Heckendorf, 1919 + 1924; Franz Heckendorf, catalogue of the special exhibition by the Gallery Hagemeier, Frankfort/Main, 1985; Thieme-Becker XVI, 211 f.; Vollmer II, 400; Cicerone, vols. 1912-1928, here especially XVI (1924), 802 f. (not checked); Feuer II, 1 (1920/21), 195-202.

with the proverbial “strong, shining local colors” from the for Heckendorf that determining group of the mountainous southern landscapes, based on the “study stays in … Italy, Dalmatia and Asia Minor … The most mature what Heckendorf has created so far (1923) are his landscapes … especially, however, the landscapes he had the occasion to paint during the World War (I) as combat pilot at the eastern front,

on  the  Balkans , at  the  Bosporus  and  at  the  Tigris ”

(Vollmer in Thieme-Becker and in Vollmer resp.).

The figuration, as frequently with him, intentionally-visibly subordinated by contourless (not) faces. For

“ ‘spiritualize everything that is optically visible and translate it into the sphere of the visionarily seen’; that meant

the  accomplishment  of  the  program  of  modern  expressionism ,

of  which  H .  is  one  of  the  most  persuasive  evangelists … ”

(Vollmer in Thieme-Becker).

And with reference to Kirchner’s street figures Peter Bürger shall speak generations later

(“Saunters overstretch the Town … Kirchner and the Mannerism” in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung July 23, 2001). But already Hogarth made use of this stylistic method of Biblical origin by way of his “Times I” (1762) in the person of Lord Temple, that is to not make a picture, just as likewise the children of orthodox Mennonites play with faceless puppets.

„ Pupil of the instruction class of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts and the Academy, but essentially autodidact (just as the contemporaries Heckel + E. L. Kirchner and like these starting from impressionism). One of the most skilled exponents of the young generation of German artists … Coping with all techniques and a exceedingly easily producing talent … besides oil painting H. applies himself to pastel, watercolor and lithography … ”

(Vollmer). With a characteristic shining out of itself. Just as here then, too.

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