Get a Heckel Certificate of Authenticity for your painting or a COA for your Boucher drawing or print.

For all your Heckel artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

How to get a Heckel Certificate of Authenticity is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Heckel painting, drawing or print.

If you want to sell your Heckel painting, drawing or print use our selling services. We offer Heckel selling help, selling advice, private treaty sales and full brokerage.

We have been authenticating Heckel and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Heckel experts and Heckel certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Heckel artworks.

Our Heckel paintings, drawings and print authentications are accepted and respected worlwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Heckel certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Heckel painting, drawing or print anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Heckel paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Heckel collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Erich Heckel art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Erich Heckel or we will sell it for you.

Erich Heckel was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the Die Brücke group (“The Bridge”) which existed 1905-1913.

Heckel was born in Döbeln (Saxony). Heckel and others members of the group Die Brücke greatly admired the work of Edvard Munch, and aimed to make a “bridge” between traditional neo-romantic German painting and modern expressionist painting. The four founding members made much use of the print as a cheap and quick medium with which to produce affordable art.

In 1937 the Nazi Party declared his work “degenerate”; it forbade him to show his work in public, and over 700 items of his art were confiscated from the nation’s museums. By 1944 all of his woodcut blocks and print plates had been destroyed.

Afler World War II Heckel lived at Hemmenhofen near Lake Constance, teaching at the Karlsruhe Academy until 1955. He continued painting until his death at Radolfzell in 1970. Like most members of Die Brücke, he was a prolific printmaker, with 465 woodcuts, 375 etchings, and 400 lithographs described in the Dube catalogues raisonné, over 200 of which, mostly etchings, date to the last seven years of his life.

A major retrospective exhibition, Erich Heckel – His Work in the 1920s, was held October 2004 – February 2005 at the Brücke Museum in Berlin. Still wondering about an early 20th century German painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Erich Heckel.