Meine Mutter. Um 1904.
Woodcut.
Gerlinger H 04-3. Signed. Lower left inscribed "Orig. Holzschnitt". 16 x 12 cm (6.2 x 4.7 in). Sheet: 28 x 22,5 cm (11 x 8,8 in).
[KT].
• One of the first woodcuts by the young artist from the early days of the "Brücke".
• A fruitful exchange between Heckel and Schmidt-Rottluff raised his awareness of print techniques and laid the foundation for an extraordinary production.
• Very rare on the auction market (source: artprice.com).

The sheet is registered in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Brücke archive, issue 1, 1967 (with illu. 2, there dated 1905).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: das graphische Werk. Zum 90. Geburtstag des Künstlers, Brücke-Museum Berlin, September 7 - December 8, 1974, no. 5 (copy of the Brücke-Museum).
Die "Brücke" im Aufbruch. Ausstellung aus eigenem Besitz. Zur 75. Wiederkehr des Gründungstages der "Brücke" am 7. Juni 1905, Brücke-Museum Berlin, July 1980, no. 76 (copy of the Brücke-Museum).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Bremen, June 16 - September 10, 1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, September 27 - December 3, 1989, p. 77 (with illu.), p. 219, cat. no. 18 (with illu., copy of the Brücke-Museum).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 31, p. 90, SHG no. 17 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 26, SHG no. 21 (with illu.).