Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Lot n° 3

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Under the bridge. 1905. Woodcut. Not by Schapire. Gerlinger H 05-11. Monogrammed in the stock. Signed "Karl Schmidt". Inscribed and dated "Erster Druck 1905" at lower left. On buff laid paper. 16 x 22.6 cm (6.2 x 8.8 in). Paper: 22.5 x 28 cm (8.8 x 11 in). [KT]. - Offered for the first time on the international auction market. - This rare, very early woodcut by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff shows a colossal effect. - Japanese woodblock prints of the 19th century, widely used and often illustrated around the turn of the century, for example by Utagawa Hiroshige, may have served as a model. PROVENIENCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp). EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: the graphic work. On the occasion of the artist's 90th birthday, Brücke Museum, Berlin, 7.9.-8.12.1974, cat.-no. 6 (m. ill.). Die Brücke im Aufbruch. Exhibition from the artist's own collection on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Brücke on June 7, 1905, Brücke-Museum, Berlin, June 7-July 13, 1980, cat. no. 79 (with illustration). Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, retrospective, Kunsthalle Bremen, 16.6.-10.9.1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 27.9.-3.12.1989, p. 219, cat.-no. 20 (m. ill.). Schleswig-Holstein 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). The Bridge in Dresden. 1905-1911, Dresden Castle, Dresden State Art Collections, Galerie Neue Meister, Oct. 20, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002, cat. no. 127 (w. ill.). Expressive! The Artists of the Brücke. The Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Albertina, Vienna, 1.6.-26.8.2007, cat.-no. 2 (m. ill.). Schmidt-Rottluff. Form, Color, Expression, Buchheim Museum, Bernried am Starnberger See, Sept. 29, 2018-Feb. 3, 2019, p. 114 (w. ill.). Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022). LITERATURE: Horst Jähner, Künstlergruppe Brücke. Geschichte einer Gemeinschaft und das Lebenswerk ihrer Repräsentanten, Berlin 1984, p. 21 (m. fig. no. 16). Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 204, SHG no. 255 (m. ill.). Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Bestandskatalog Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 29, SHG no. 29 (m. ill.). Call time: 10.06.2022 - approx. 17.04 h +/- 20 min.