Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Lot n° 31

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Two Nudes with Negro Sculpture. 1913. Watercolor and ink. Signed and dated lower right. On stiff buff wove paper. 50 x 60 cm (19.6 x 23.6 in), sheet size. [CH]. - Schmidt-Rottluff encountered the art of non-European cultures as early as his Dresden years and began his own collection no later than 1913. - Objects of African or oceanic origin now become pictorial objects themselves, like this leopard caryatid from Cameroon. - These early works, which bear witness to the fascination of the exotic, are offered only extremely rarely on the international auction market. - Exhibited in the important retrospective at the Lenbachhaus. The watercolor is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin. PROVENIENCE: Prof. Max Sauerlandt Collection, Hamburg (1914-1934). Alice Sauerlandt, née Schmidt, Hamburg (1934 through inheritance from the aforementioned, until at least 1953, probably until at least 1965). Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp). EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Prints and Watercolors. Exhibition on the occasion of his 80th birthday on 1 December 1964, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung, 1.12.1964-14.2.1965, cat.-no. 31 (from private collection in Hamburg). Schmidt-Rottluff. Watercolors from the Years 1909 to 1969, 55th B.A.T. Exhibition, B.A.T. Cigaretten Fabriken GmBH, Hamburg, 13.6.-10.8.1974, cat.-no. 53 (m. ill., u. Farbabb. p. 159). Karl Schmidt-Rottluff zum 90. Geburtstag - Gemälde und Aquarelle, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg 1974, cat.-no. 53. Das Aquarell der Brücke, Brücke Museum Berlin, 5.9.-16.11.1975, cat.-no. 129 (no illustration). Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, retrospective, Kunsthalle Bremen, 16.6.-10.9.1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 27.9.-3.12.1989, cat.-no. 135 (w. 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). Die Brücke und die Moderne. 1904-1914, Bucerius Kunstforum, Hamburg, 17.10.2004-31.5.2005, cat. no. 170. Expressive! The Artists of the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Albertina, Vienna, 1.6.-26.8.2007, cat.-no. 30 (with color illustrations). Bridging the gap: Gerlinger - Buchheim, Buchheim Museum of the Imagination, Bernried am Starnberger See, 28.10.2017-25.2.2018, p. 160 (m. color ill.). Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022). LITERATURE: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Roman Norbert Ketterer, 17th auction, May 16-18, 1953, lot 1859 (offered by Prof. Sauerlandt, unsold). Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 366, SHG no. 608 (m. ill.). Gunther Thiem, Stephan von Wiese, Die Verwandlung der Venus. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's Nude Drawings from 1909-1913, Munich 2003, no. 74. Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Bestandskatalog Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 66, SHG no. 119 (m. ill.). Magdalena Moeller (ed.), Starke Schnitte. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Berlin 2014, Cf. cat. no. 33, o. p. Bridging: Gerlinger - Buchheim! Museum Guide to the "Brücke" Collections of Hermann Gerlinger and Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Feldafing 2017, p. 160 (m. ill., p. 161). "I have often increased heads into the immense in relation to the other body forms as a rallying point of all psyche, all expression." Karl Schmidt-Rottluff around 1912 to Gustav Schiefler Call time: 10.06.2022 - approx. 18.00 h +/- 20 min.