Frauenkopf. 1916.
Woodcut.
Dated in printing block. Verso typographically titled and inscribed. On creme paper. 25.7 x 18.2 cm (10.1 x 7.1 in). Sheet: 32,5 x 24,5 cm (12,7 x 9,4 in).
From "Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart", published by Kurt Pfister in Verlag Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1920. [JS].

• The depiction is based on the painting "Frau mit Tasche" (1915), a portrait of the art historian Rosa Schapire, the first author of the catalog raisonné of Schmidt-Rottluff's prints.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (SHG no. 145 a, with the collector's stamp on the reverse, Lugt 6032).

LITERATURE: Rosa Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Graphisches Werk bis 1923, [Berlin 1924] reprint New York 1987, no. H 191 (black-and-white illu., plate vol.).
Gerhart Söhn, Handbuch der Original-Graphik in deutschen Zeitschriften, Mappenwerken, Kunstbüchern und Katalogen (HDO), vol. 1, Düsseldorf 1989, no. 108-15.

In fine condition. With a few faint traces of creasing and rubbing in the edges.