Sale: 600 / Evening Sale, Dec. 05. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125001071
Lot 125001071 
Raumbeispiel
125001071
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Weggabelung, 1909.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 80,000 - 120,000
$ 93,600 - 140,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Weggabelung. 1909.
Watercolor.
Signed and dated in the lower right. On watercolor paper, laid on wove paper. 37 x 44.3 cm (14.5 x 17.4 in), the full sheet.
Painted in the Dangast Bog in the summer of 1909. [MH].
• From the best Dresden “Brücke” period.
• Radically modern landscape aesthetics in a free interplay of form and color.
• Through his experience of nature in Dangast, Schmidt-Rottluff finds his new, expressive visual language.
• Works created in this place of inspiration on the North Sea coast are extremely rare on the international auction market.
• Part of an acclaimed private collection in Berlin for almost 40 years.
The watercolor is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Charles Tabachnick Collection, Toronto (until 1986, Sotheby's, New York).
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1986).
EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Graphik, Kunsthandwerk aus Privatsammlungen, Lippisches Landesmuseum und Schloss Detmold, November 5-December 3, 1978.
LITERATURE: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, Modern Art Auction, June 12–13, 1981, lot 1215 (illustrated, color plate 25).
Sotheby's, New York, 5545th auction, November 19, 1986, lot 16.
"The rhythm, the rush of color, that is what always captivates and preoccupies me."
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff to Gustav Schiefler, May 1907, quoted from: Gerhard Wietek, Schmidt-Rottluff. Oldenburger Jahre 1907–1912, Mainz 1995, p. 119
Watercolor.
Signed and dated in the lower right. On watercolor paper, laid on wove paper. 37 x 44.3 cm (14.5 x 17.4 in), the full sheet.
Painted in the Dangast Bog in the summer of 1909. [MH].
• From the best Dresden “Brücke” period.
• Radically modern landscape aesthetics in a free interplay of form and color.
• Through his experience of nature in Dangast, Schmidt-Rottluff finds his new, expressive visual language.
• Works created in this place of inspiration on the North Sea coast are extremely rare on the international auction market.
• Part of an acclaimed private collection in Berlin for almost 40 years.
The watercolor is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Charles Tabachnick Collection, Toronto (until 1986, Sotheby's, New York).
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1986).
EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Graphik, Kunsthandwerk aus Privatsammlungen, Lippisches Landesmuseum und Schloss Detmold, November 5-December 3, 1978.
LITERATURE: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, Modern Art Auction, June 12–13, 1981, lot 1215 (illustrated, color plate 25).
Sotheby's, New York, 5545th auction, November 19, 1986, lot 16.
"The rhythm, the rush of color, that is what always captivates and preoccupies me."
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff to Gustav Schiefler, May 1907, quoted from: Gerhard Wietek, Schmidt-Rottluff. Oldenburger Jahre 1907–1912, Mainz 1995, p. 119
125001071
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Weggabelung, 1909.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 80,000 - 120,000
$ 93,600 - 140,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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