Sale: 533 / Modern Art Day Sale and Gerlinger Collection, Dec. 10. 2022 in Munich Lot 428

 

428
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Plakat: Der neue Kunstsalon, 1913.
Woodcut, black and blue on primed paper
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400
Sold:
€ 25,000 / $ 26,750

(incl. surcharge)
Plakat: Der neue Kunstsalon. 1913.
Woodcut, black and blue on primed paper.
Gerken A 79 I (von II). Dube H 717 I (of II). Not in Schiefler. Signed and inscribed. On thin poster paper. 84 x 61.5 cm (33 x 24.2 in). Sheet: 91 x 64,5 cm (35,8 x 25,3 in).
The executed poster shows the lettering "E.Heckel und EL Kirchner" in the arch in left of the depicted female bust, however, this only hand-printed copy still shows the arch withouit the lettering. Typescript by Erich Heckel. [EH].
• Only known copy
• Poster for the reopening of Kunstsalon Dr. Paul Ferdinand Schmidt and Max Dietzel, Munich
.

PROVENANCE: Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf.
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1980, with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).

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

LITERATURE: Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel Düsseldorf, Lagerkatalog 3, Neuerwerbungen: Graphik, Zeichnungen, Düsseldorf 1980, cat. no. 67 (with illu.).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 122, SHG no. 88.
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 742, SHG no. 742.

Together with Max Dietzel, the art historian and museum man Paul Ferdinand Schmidt (1878-1955) opened the gallery "Der Neue Kunstsalon" in Munich in October 1912. As early as 1908, Schmidt had his first contacts with the "Brücke" artists and became a passive member. In 1912, the year of its opening, the gallery presented works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Emil Nolde for the first time in Munich. And in January 1913 one of the last joint exhibitions of the artist group followed. Heckel and Kirchner created the woodcut for the exhibition poster: Kirchner made the elegant female head with long, full hair, the delicate hands held in front of the chest, while Heckel was in charge of the extensive text about the name of the gallery, its address, the owners and the exhibition's content. "Brücke"?" - Kirchner and Heckel omit the name of the collective for the first time and replace the information with the self-confident programmatic reference to their claim: they are the representatives of "New Art". And the respective signature of the two executing artists is also missing. This poster is an own print signed by Kirchner. Except for the excluded Max Pechstein, Heckel, Kirchner, Mueller and Schmidt-Rottluff showed the paintings, graphics (drawings), handicrafts and probably sculptures as announced on the poster, just the way they had in the traveling exhibition at Gurlitt, Bangel and Commeterin 1912. [MvL]



428
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Plakat: Der neue Kunstsalon, 1913.
Woodcut, black and blue on primed paper
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400
Sold:
€ 25,000 / $ 26,750

(incl. surcharge)