Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Lot n° 43

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Lighthouse. 1922. Watercolor and ink brush over pencil. Signed lower right. Inscribed "Leuchtturm" in pencil on verso. On light cardboard. 52 x 41 cm (20.4 x 16.1 in), sheet size. [KT]. - Important subject in impressively bright colors. - The former student of architecture is visibly fascinated by the unusual construction of the lighthouse. - Of unique futuristic vividness. - Exhibited in the important retrospective at the Lenbachhaus Munich in 1989. The watercolor is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin. PROVENIENCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp). EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff on the occasion of his 100th birthday. List of exhibited works, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, 3.6.-12.8.1984, cat.-no. 103 (m. ill.). Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, retrospective, Kunsthalle Bremen, 16.6.-10.9.1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 27.9.-3.12.1989, cat.-no. 247 (m. ill.; u. ill. plate 84). 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). Expressive. The Artists of the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Albertina, Vienna, June 1-Aug. 26, 2007, cat. no. 63 (with color illustrations). Schmidt-Rottluff. Form, Color, Expression, Buchheim Museum, Bernried am Starnberger See, Sept. 29, 2018-Feb. 3, 2019, p. 255 (w. ill.). 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. 398, SHG no. 694 (m. ill.). Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Bestandskatalog Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 99, SHG no. 209 (m. ill.). Call time: 10.06.2022 - approx. 18.24 h +/- 20 min.