The Tiergarten in Autumn, Berlin

Artist Erich Heckel German, 1883–1970

Date1920

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions32 7/8 x 38 in. (83.5 x 96.5 cm)
Frame: 37 x 41 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (94 x 106 x 7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Levin

Object numberG.60.4.1

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Not on view

ProvenanceCreated Berlin, 1920; collection of the artist; Dr. Gustav Adolf Ratjen (1881–1928), Berlin (Dahlem), Germany, by 1928 (probably acquired from the artist); to wife, Martha Schnitzler Ratjen (1885–1969), Berlin and Munich, 1928; on loan to Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1932; [Galerie Günther Franke, Munich, ca. 1957]; Samuel J. Levin, St. Louis, MO, 1958; on loan to NCMA, 1959–60; given to NCMA, 1960.

Published ReferencesPaul Vogt, Erich Heckel (Recklinghausen: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1965), listed and illus. (b-w, as Tiergarten im Herbst) no. 1920:9. "Outgoing Loans to Temporary Exhibitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 13, no. 3 (1976), listed 60. German and Austrian Expressionism (exhibition catalogue) (New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1976), no. 20, illus. (b-w). Expressionism and its Legacy (exhibition catalogue) (St. Petersburg, FL: St. Petersburg Museum of Art, 1980), no. 3 (as Berlin Canal Scene). Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 263. L.E. [Lisa Eveleigh], "Private Collectors Share Their Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview 11 (Autumn 1992), mentioned 12, illus. (b-w) 11. Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 260. John W. Coffey, entry for The Tiergarten in Autumn, Berlin, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 456, illus. (color) 457. Andreas Hüneke, Erich Heckel: Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Wandbilder und Skulpturen, Band II (1919–1964) (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2017), no. 1920-17, illus. (color) 36.

Exhibition HistoryBerlin, Germany, Nationalgalerie, “Ausstellung Neuerer Deutscher Kunst aus Berliner Privatbesitz,” April 1928, no. 37 (as Im Tiergarten, 1920, collection Dr. Gustav Ratjen, Dahlem). Duisburg, Germany, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, “Erich Heckel,” July 20–September 1, 1957, no. 34 (as Berliner Kanallanschaft). Munich, Galerie Günther Franke, "Die Galerie und ihreKünstler," February-April 1958, no. 26 (as Kanallandschaft). Columbus, OH, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, "German Expressionism," February 9-March 9, 1961, no. [ ? ]. Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, "German Masters of the Twentieth Century," March 21-April 28, 1974. New Orleans, LA, New Orleans Museum of Art, "German and Austrian Expressionism," November 22, 1975-January 18, 1976, no. 20, illus. (b-w). St. Petersburg, FL, Museum of Fine Arts, "Expressionism and its Legacy," January 19-February 24, 1980, no. 3 (as Berlin Canal Scene). Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Changing Selections Gallery, "German Watercolors, 1920-1932," May 30-August 20, 1989. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–May 22, 2023.

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