Die Holzbrücke. 1905.
Woodcut.
Gerlinger 05-10. Signed, titled and inscribed, with the monogram in the printing block. On fine Japon. 15.2 x 25.2 cm (5.9 x 9.9 in). Sheet: 24,8 x 39,8 cm (9,8 x 15,7 in).
[JS].
• One of the artist's first woodcuts.
• The eponymous motif from the founding year of the artist group "Brücke".
• Very rare. This is the first time that a copy of this woodcut is offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Other copies are in teh collections of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, and the Hamburg Kunsthalle.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp on the reverse, 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: Wolf Stubbe, Erwerbungen für die graphische Sammlung in den Jahren 1964 und 1965, in: Jahrbuch der hamburgerer Kunstsammlungen, vol. 11, 1966, p. 200, illu. 21 (copy at the Hamburg Kunsthalle).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 204, SHG no. 254 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Ergänzungen zu den Werkkatalogen der Druckgraphik von Karl Schmidt Rottluff, in: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 33, cat no. HG 05-10 (with illu., presumably this copy).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 28, SHG no. 28 (with illu.).