Erich Heckel – Aquarelle und Druckgrafik aus der Sammlung Jess
Schenkung Jürgen Brinkmann
Erich Heckel was a founding member and commercial director of the Brücke artist group, with close ties to Saxony and Chemnitz. Jürgen Brinkmann’s outstanding donation to Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz significantly expands the collection through the addition of four watercolours and 40 graphic works produced between 1905 and 1966, thus tying in with the most recent acquisition of the sculpture Stehende, from 1920.
With this exhibition, we would like to thank Jürgen Brinkmann for these wonderful enhancements to our collection and for his generosity and commitment as a collector. His donation was previously owned largely by the Dresdner publisher Wolfgang Jess, who is also honoured by the exhibition and its accompanying publication. The exquisite collection will be presented along with Heckel’s masterpieces from the museum’s own collection, and thus also particularly exemplify the qualitative growth of Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.
