BATTKE.
HECK.
TRATT.

November 17 to January 27, 2018
Opening on Friday, November 17, 6-9 p.m.

Hanna Bekker vom Rath (1893-1983) founded her gallery in Frankfurt 70 years ago - an occasion to show three of the gallery owner's contemporaries. Georg Heck (1897-1982) and Heinz Battke (1900-1966) were both exhibited by her, Battke quite frequently since 1950. Georg Heck was Max Beckmann's master student at the Städelschule from 1928 to 1932, Heinz Battke taught there from 1956.

The exhibition is complemented by works by Karl Tratt (1900-1937), who became Beckmann's pupil in 1926 and was a close friend of Heck. The paintings of the artist, who died early of tuberculosis, are a successor to his teacher, later also influenced by his increasing interest in the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, whom he visited in exile in Davos in 1936.

Heinz Battke, Gloves taken off (Die Visite III), 1950, pen, red ink, watercolor, 30 x 44.5 cm
Georg Heck, Abstract composition in 6 colors, undated (ca. 1950), woodcut on Japan, 76 x 54 cm, single known copy.
Karl Tratt, Young woman with propped-up head in red blouse, c. 1932, oil on canvas, 55.5 x 55.5 cm Wkvz.: Fietkau 1.23