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Prof. Franz Heckendorf, "Partnachklamm" View of the narrow alpine gorge near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, with the Partnach plunging into the valley in the Reintal and a narrow hiking trail on the right side of the valley in bright sunshine, Rainer Zimmermann notes "... In the choice of colours, the whole passionate verve of his effervescent temperament finds its highest satisfaction. Visionary lighting effects complete the allure. His colours glow, twitch and flash or are full of dark melancholy. His pictures are usually a stroke of genius and not the result of long endeavour. Heckendorf's sunbeams are typical of many of the light-flooded landscapes. ...", impasto, expressive painting with broad brushstrokes, oil on canvas, signed and dated "F. Heckendorf [19]21" lower left, inscribed "F. Heckendorf 1921 gemalt" on the reverse of the canvas, we would like to thank the artist's granddaughter, Mrs Traudl Jährling in Pfungstadt, for confirming the authenticity of the work by telephone, small hole upper left, very nicely framed, dimensions approx. 82 x 61 cm. Artist information: actually Friedrich Heinrich Franz Heckendorf, German painter and graphic artist. Painter and graphic artist (1888 Berlin-Schöneberg - 1962 Munich), childhood in Berlin-Steglitz and Lichterfelde, initially trained as a decorative painter, studied 1906-08 at the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts and the Academy in Berlin, at times a student at Lovis Corinth's painting school, Largely self-taught, studied in Paris, Italy, Dalmatia, Turkey and Asia Minor, worked in Berlin-Steglitz, later in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, 1915-31 member of the Berlin Secession, whose exhibitions he organised from 1909, during the First World War turned to Impressionism. During the First World War, he turned from Impressionism to Expressionism. World War I in Macedonia, Mesopotamia and Turkey, friend of Erich Maria Remarque, jury member of the Berlin Secession from 1917, member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund Weimar, 1919-33 studio in Havelland, first exhibition at the Fritz Gurlitt art dealership in Berlin in 1923, 1933-45 defamed as "degenerate" and retreat to Malchowsee near Neuruppin and summer stays in Kitzbühel, interned in Waldshut concentration camp and Mauthausen concentration camp from 1943-45 for helping Jewish friends to escape, liberated by the US Army in 1945, 1945-49 resident in St. Gilgen and professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Gilgen and professor at the Academy in Vienna as well as teaching in Salzburg, active in Munich from 1949, source: Thieme- Becker, Vollmer, AKL, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Dressler, Bruckmann "Münchner Maler des 19./20. Jh.", files of the Reichskammer der bildenden Künste Berlin and Wikipedia.
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Prof. Franz Heckendorf, "Partnachklamm" View of the narrow alpine gorge near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, with the Partnach plunging into the valley in the Reintal and a narrow hiking trail on the right side of the valley in bright sunshine, Rainer Zimmermann notes "... In the choice of colours, the whole passionate verve of his effervescent temperament finds its highest satisfaction. Visionary lighting effects complete the allure. His colours glow, twitch and flash or are full of dark melancholy. His pictures are usually a stroke of genius and not the result of long endeavour. Heckendorf's sunbeams are typical of many of the light-flooded landscapes. ...", impasto, expressive painting with broad brushstrokes, oil on canvas, signed and dated "F. Heckendorf [19]21" lower left, inscribed "F. Heckendorf 1921 gemalt" on the reverse of the canvas, we would like to thank the artist's granddaughter, Mrs Traudl Jährling in Pfungstadt, for confirming the authenticity of the work by telephone, small hole upper left, very nicely framed, dimensions approx. 82 x 61 cm. Artist information: actually Friedrich Heinrich Franz Heckendorf, German painter and graphic artist. Painter and graphic artist (1888 Berlin-Schöneberg - 1962 Munich), childhood in Berlin-Steglitz and Lichterfelde, initially trained as a decorative painter, studied 1906-08 at the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts and the Academy in Berlin, at times a student at Lovis Corinth's painting school, Largely self-taught, studied in Paris, Italy, Dalmatia, Turkey and Asia Minor, worked in Berlin-Steglitz, later in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, 1915-31 member of the Berlin Secession, whose exhibitions he organised from 1909, during the First World War turned to Impressionism. During the First World War, he turned from Impressionism to Expressionism. World War I in Macedonia, Mesopotamia and Turkey, friend of Erich Maria Remarque, jury member of the Berlin Secession from 1917, member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund Weimar, 1919-33 studio in Havelland, first exhibition at the Fritz Gurlitt art dealership in Berlin in 1923, 1933-45 defamed as "degenerate" and retreat to Malchowsee near Neuruppin and summer stays in Kitzbühel, interned in Waldshut concentration camp and Mauthausen concentration camp from 1943-45 for helping Jewish friends to escape, liberated by the US Army in 1945, 1945-49 resident in St. Gilgen and professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Gilgen and professor at the Academy in Vienna as well as teaching in Salzburg, active in Munich from 1949, source: Thieme- Becker, Vollmer, AKL, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Dressler, Bruckmann "Münchner Maler des 19./20. Jh.", files of the Reichskammer der bildenden Künste Berlin and Wikipedia.
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