Mondnacht. 1906.
Lithograph.
Signed, dated and titled. Once more signed in the stone. On firm laid paper. 25.8 x 37.1 cm (10.1 x 14.6 in). Sheet: 32 x 44,5 cm (12,5 x 17,5 in).
Printed by Dresdner Kunstanstalt.
The work is registered in the Hermann Gerlinger Collection under the number SHG 35a. [AR].

• Extremely rare, early lithograph from the beginning of the "Brücke".
• Schmidt-Rottluff was one of the first members of the artist group to devote himself to lithography where he found new means of expression.
• Two years later, he produced an etching based on the same motif.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032, since 2011: Galerie Bassenge).

LITERATURE: Rosa Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Graphisches Werk bis 1923, Berlin 1924, no. L 3 (illu. in black and white, plate vol.).
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Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, auction 97, May 28, 2011, Moderne Kunst Teil I, lot 8263.
Schmidt-Rottluff. Form, Farbe, Ausdruck!, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, September 29, 2018 - February 3, 2019, p. 120 (illu.).

Good overall impression. Overall irregularly browned.