Silberring mit eingerolltem Mittelteil. Um 1912.
Silversheet, cut, bent, cut strips bent into a ring head, open, overlapping hoop.
Inside the hoop under the ring head with the signature stamp. Unique object. Diameter: 2 cm (0.7 in).

• Created in Dangast around 1912.
• Probably originally owned by Rosa Schapire.
• Artful design from a single piece.
• A Schmidt-Rottluff ring that is at the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum today is designed according to the same principle.

PROVENANCE: Form. Rosa Schapire, Hamburg/London [?].
Artist's ownership (presumbaly reobtained after Schapire's death in 1954).
Privately owned (from the artist's estate).
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg.

EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Das nachgelassene Werk seit den 20er Jahren. Malerei, Plastik, Kunsthandwerk, Brücke-Museum Berlin, August 20, 1977 - January 15, 1978, cat. no. 176.
Nur für ihre Frauen. Schmuck von Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde, Erich Heckel und Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), October 26, 2003 - January 11, 2004, cat. no. 13, p. 71 (color illu).
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum
Schloss Gottorf, Gerlinger Collection, uninventoried loan from 1995 to 2000.
Rosa. Eigenartig grün. Rosa Schapire und die Expressionisten, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, August 28 – November 15. 2009, p. 326.
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Gerhard Wietek, Schmidt-Rottluff. Plastik und Kunsthandwerk. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2001, no. 469 p. 308 (illu.).
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Gerhard Wietek, Maler der Brücke. Farbige Kartengrüße an Rosa Schapire von Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Wiesbaden 1958, no. 6.
Anne Ward, Der Ring im Wandel der Zeit, Munich 1981, p. 139.
Gerhard Wietek, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff in Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein, Neumünster 1984, p. 104.
Jochen Wolters, Zur Geschichte der Goldschmiedetechniken, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1985, p.
Gerhard Wietek, Schmidt-Rottluff. Oldenburger Jahre, 1907-1912, Oldenburg 1994, pp. 437 and592.
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 60, SHG no. 103 (illu.).

In his catalogue raisonné, Gerhard Wietek points out that the ring had already been shown and photographed as a loan at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg in 1925, but was not depicted in Max Sauerlandt's publication at the same time. Wietek assumes that this ring is one of the two silver rings that Rosa Schapire had made available for the exhibition.

In very good condition.