Nach dem Fang. 1923.
Colored chalk drawing and carpenter's pencil.
Lower left signed and titled on the reverse. On laid paper. 39.6 x 50 cm (15.5 x 19.6 in), the full sheet.
[AR].

• Strong and colorful drawing with the then key motif of fishermen at work.
• Unused preparatory work for the Kestner portfolio published in the same year with six lithographs depicting the life of the fishermen in Jershöft.

PROVENANCE: Museum für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, Szczecin (with the erased stamp on the reverse).
State property (confiscated from the above in context of the "Degenerate Art" campaign, no. 7748).
Hildebrandt Gurlitt, Hamburg (ab 1940).
Wilhelm Friedrich Arntz, Haag in Upper Bavaria.
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. 259 (illu. p. 271).
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. 257 (illu.).

LITERATURE: Gunther Thiem, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Munich 1963 (illu. p. 87).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 401, SHG no. 700 (color illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 101, SHG no. 214 (color illu.

www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/db_entart_kunst/datenbank (EK no. 7748).

In good condition. Minimally browned in mat opening. Isolated, very small areas of paper abrasion and tiny marginal tears.