Sale: 539 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 10. 2023 in Munich Lot 370

 

370
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Am Lebasee, Um 1935.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 41,148

(incl. surcharge)
Am Lebasee. Um 1935.
Watercolor.
Lower right signed. Backing board inscribed "Am Lebasee" by Emy Schmidt-Rottluff. On Fabriano board (with the watermark). 50.5 x 69.5 cm (19.8 x 27.3 in), the full sheet.
[KT].

• The work is a document of the revival of the watercolor in 1933.
• After stays in Jershöft, Schmidt-Rottluff discovered the region around the Pomeranian Lake Leba as a new source of inspiration.
• A landscape in a strikingly new and clear expression.
• The yellow haystacks are a key motif in his creation
.

The work is documented 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:
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff zum 100. Geburtstag, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, June 3 - August 12, 1984, cat. no. 116 (with illu.).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Bremen, June 16 - September 10, 1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, September 27 - December 3, 1989, cat. no. 293 (with illu. and plate 97).

LITERATURE:
Hermann Gerlinger, Karl Schmidt Rottluff, Den Freunden zum 1.12.1979, no p., 1979.
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 412ff, SHG no. 740 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 115, SHG no. 260 (with illu.).




370
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Am Lebasee, Um 1935.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 41,148

(incl. surcharge)