Zwei kauernde Akte. 1913.
Chalks, with black and gray-blue wash.
Signed and dated in lower right. On brownish wove paper. 42 x 60 cm (16.5 x 23.6 in), the full sheet.
[KT].
• Made during the the prolific heyday of nude painting during the summer stay in Nida.
• The artist prepared his large-size nude paintings with scores of drawings.
• Nude paintings from this period are in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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

PROVENANCE: Martha and Paul Rauert Collection, Hamburg.
Rudolf Hoffmann, Hamburg.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Brücke 1905-1913, eine Künstlergemeinschaft des Expressionismus, Museum Folkwang, Essen, October 12 - December 14, 1958, cat. no. 213.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Graphik, Kunstverein Hanover/Akademie der Künste Berlin, June 7 - July 5, 1964, cat no. 81 (with illu.).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Die Schwarzblätter, Ausstellung zum 90. Geburtstag, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung, December 1, 1974 - January 26, 1975, cat. no. 18 (with illu. on pp. 24/25).
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Bremen, June 16 - September 10, 1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, September 27 - December 3, 1989, cat. no. 146 (with black-and-white illu.).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 28 (with illu.).
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. 193 (with illu.).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, SHG no. 606 (with illu.).
Gunther Thiem, Die Verwandlungen der Venus. Schmidt-Rottluffs Aktzeichnungen von 1905 bis 1913, Munich 2003, no. 57 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, SHG no. 118 (with illu.).

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