Sale: 551 / Collection Hermann Gerlinger: woodcuts, June 10. 2023 in Munich Lot 543

 

543
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Weg mit Bäumen, 1911.
Woodcut
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,700
Sold:
€ 12,700 / $ 13,589

(incl. surcharge)
Weg mit Bäumen. 1911.
Woodcut.
Schapire H 69. Signed and dated. Inscribed with the work number "196". On wove paper. 39 x 50.2 cm (15.3 x 19.7 in). Sheet: 53,3 x 64,8 cm (20,9 x 25,5 in).
[KT].
• Differentiated print with the light gray of the sky printed from a separate plate.
• A hand-made print masterpiece.
• One of the boldest and most consequent compositions in this technique.
• Experimental integration of Cubist elements
.

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).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 22 (with illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 225, SHG no. 303 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 54, SHG no. 85 (with illu.).




543
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Weg mit Bäumen, 1911.
Woodcut
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,700
Sold:
€ 12,700 / $ 13,589

(incl. surcharge)