Aufgehende Sonne. 1953.
Pencil drawing.
Signed and dated "21.8.53". Titled and with the work number "35422" on the reverse. On light wove paper. 40 x 53.8 cm (15.7 x 21.1 in), the full sheet.
[KT].

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

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: 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).

LITERATURE: Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, working copy, with hand-written annotation p. 129, SHG no. 292a (with illu.).

In good condition. Isolated faint pressure marks in the sheet and with a smoothed, unobtrusive crese running diaginally through the upper part. Slightly bulged in upper left from a former mounting on the reverse.