Akte unter Baum. 1913.
Woodcut.
Schapire 110. Signed and dated. On off-white Japon. 30.5 x 23.5 cm (12 x 9.2 in). Sheet: 49 x 34 cm (19,2 x 13,3 in).
In left and right of bottom margin with small inscriptions by a hand other than that of the artist.
The work is documented in the Hermann Gerlinger Collection as SHG 120 a.[EH].
• Very rare: artprice.com does not show any results for a sheet with this motif on the international auction market since 1985.
• Another copy is at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt a.M.
• Formerly in the Dr. Wilhelm Niemeyer Collection, Hamburg (1874 - 1960).

PROVENANCE: Artist's studio.
Dr. Wilhelm Niemeyer Collection, Hamburg.
Art dealer Jörg Maas, Berlin (Christie's, London 2008)
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032; acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: Art dealer Jörg Maaß, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ausgewählte Druckgraphik aus der Sammlung Niemeyer, no. 14 (with illu).
Schmidt-Rottluff. Form, Farbe, Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum der Phantasie, Bernried am Starnberger See, September 29, 2018 - February 24, 2019, p. 195 (with illu.).

LITERATURE: Christie's, Old master, modern and contemporary prints including the Wilhelm Niemeyer collection of prints by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and property from the collection of R. B. Kitaj, auction on April 2, 2008, p. 110.