Feuerlilie II. 1965.
Farbkreide über India Ink.
Lower left signed and inscribed with the work number "6520“. Inscribed "Feuerlilie II“ on the reverse. On wove paper (with truncated blindstamp). 70 x 50 cm (27.5 x 19.6 in), the full sheet. [AM].

• High-contrast floral still life from the artist's late period.
• Powerful depiction of outstanding dynamism.
• Schmidt-Rottluff achieved the fire lilies' tremenduous luminosity through the background's dark structure.

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

PROVENANCE: Die Kleine Galerie, Kampen/Sylt (1966, directly from the artist).
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032.

EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Bremen, July 16 - September 10, 1989, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, September 27 - December 3, 1989, cat. no. 342.
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).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022
Schmidt-Rottluff. Form, Farbe, Ausdruck!, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, September 29, 2018 - February 3, 2019, p. 316 (illu.).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 432, SHG no. 781 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 134, SHG no. 303 (illu.).

In very good condition.