Sale: 419 / Modern Art, Dec. 05. 2014 in Munich Lot 145

 

145
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Birkenstämme im Schnee, Frühe 1940.
Pastel
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,480
Sold:
€ 21,250 / $ 22,950

(incl. surcharge)
Birkenstämme im Schnee. Frühe 1940.
Color Pastel over gouache.
Signed lower left. On creme paper. 25 x 39 cm (9,8 x 15,3 in), the full sheet.
One of the few sheets that were made during the artist's occupational ban, as Schmidt-Rottluff counted among the degenerate artists.
A painting and a watercolor of the same motif and title are in possession of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin. [JS].

This work is registered in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Collection Dr.Victor and Hedda Peters, Leipzig.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Gemälde, Aquarelle, Graphik, Kunsthandwerk aus Privatsammlungen”, Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst 1978, Lippisches Landesmuseum and Schloß Detmold, cat. no.53.

LITERATURE: G. Thiem, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Ungemalte Bilder von 1934 bis 1944 und Briefe an einen jungen Freund, Munich/Berlin 2002, no. 8, illu. on page 31.




145
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Birkenstämme im Schnee, Frühe 1940.
Pastel
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,480
Sold:
€ 21,250 / $ 22,950

(incl. surcharge)