Gladiole und Montbretien in Vasen. Um 1940.
Watercolor and ink brush.
Signed in lower left. On cardboard. 70 x 50 cm (27.5 x 19.6 in), the full sheet. [CH].


• A particularly delightfully composed floral still life with a dynamic interplay of light and shadow, an image section that enphasizes the motif and overall harmonious colors.
• The watercolor technique is of central importance in Schmidt-Rottluff's oeuvre: watercolors dominated his oeuvre from the "Brücke" years to his last creative phase in the 1970s.
• In 1989 part of the major retrospective exhibitions at the Lenbachhaus in Munich and the Kunsthalle Bremen.

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: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Bremen, July 16 - September 10, 1989, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, September 27 - December 3, 1989, cat. no. 309, p. 282 (illu.).
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).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 4155, SHG no. 745 (illu., p. 414).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 118, SHG no. 266 (illu.).