Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Lot n° 23

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Small wooden box ("Steilkasten"). 1911. Wood, painted in red, white, brown and black, notched surface border. Wietek 240. signed on the bottom. 20.3 x 12 x 9.9 cm (7.9 x 4.7 x 3.8 in). [KT]. - With the first extensive exhibition at Commeter in Hamburg in 1911, object boxes by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff experienced widespread desirability. - Many collectors, such as Rosa Schapire in Hamburg and Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, commission the artist to design and build object boxes and display cases. - With his color design of the bodies borrowed from painting, the artist achieves a fascinatingly sculptural effect.... PROVENIENCE: Commeter Gallery, Hamburg. Linda Melita Roosen, née Bohlen, Hamburg (acquired from the aforementioned in 1911). Claus Runkel Gallery, London. Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with collector's stamp, acquired by the aforementioned in 1990). EXHIBITION: Commeter Gallery, Hamburg, 1911. Schleswig-Holstein Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001). The painters of the Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 226, SHG no. 324 (m. ill.)., cat. no. 308 (m. color ill.). Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017). Schmidt-Rottluff. Form, Color, Expression, Buchheim Museum, Bernried am Starnberger See, 29.9.2018-3.2.2019, p. 174 (m. ill.). Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022). LITERATURE: Lexikon der Kunst, ed. by Harald Olbrich and Gerhard Strauß, vol. III, Leipzig: Seemann 1991, p. 679. Wilhelm Niemeyer, Schmidt-Rottluff: bemalte Kästen, Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, October 1911, no. 11 [unpublished handwritten manuscript in the estate]. Rosa Schapire, Zu Schmidt-Rottluff's Ausstellung bei Commeter [on the exhibition of 15. wooden boxes], in: Der Hamburger, Jg. 1, Heft 12, 1910/11, pp. 267-268. Gerhard Wietek, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, Neumünster 1984, pp. 11, 34, 79, 110. Gerhard Wietek, Schmidt-Rottluff. Oldenburger Jahre 1907-1912, ed. by the Foundation for Art and Culture of the Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg, Oldenburg o. J. [1994], no. 267. Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 226, SHG no. 308 (m. ill.). Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Bestandskatalog Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 56, SHG no. 92 (m. ill.). Call time: 10.06.2022 - approx. 17.44 h +/- 20 min.