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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Lot 121002656

Bildnis Brust, 1918

Woodcut

19.8 x 15.2 in (50.3 x 38.7 cm)

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Lot 121002656

Bildnis Brust, 1918

Woodcut

19.8 x 15.2 in (50.3 x 38.7 cm)

Estimate:

€ 700 - 900

Auction: 29 days

Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co KG

City: Munich

Auction: Dec 15, 2024 03:57 PM

Auction number: 22

Auction name: Online Sale

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Lot Details

Woodcut. Signed and inscribed with the work number "188". On wove paper. 50.3 x 38.7 cm. Sheet: 71 x 53,3 cm.
The work is registered in the Hermann Gerlinger Collection with the number SHG 150a. [AR].
- Portrait of the expressionist writer Alfred Brust. - Extremely rare. - Well-known provenance alongside Hermann Gerlinger: Wilhelm Niemeyer published the important expressionist magazine "Kündung" together with Rosa Schapire, he was a passive member of "Brücke" and a former Schmidt-Rottluff collector.
LITERATURE: Rosa Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Graphisches Werk bis 1923, Berlin 1924, no. H 210 (illu. in black and white., plate vol.). - - Bassenge, Berlin, Moderne Kunst Teil I, auction 102, November 30, 2013, lot 8426.

Schmidt-Rottluff. Form, Farbe, Ausdruck!, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, September 29, 2018 - February 3, 2019, p. 221 (illu.). Buchheim Museum, Bernried (Dauerleihgabe aus der Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022)

Wilhelm Niemeyer Collection, Hamburg. Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032, acquired from Bassenge in 2013)

In good condition. Slight handling marks and isolated, professionally smoothed creases. Small, backed marginal tears as well as two mended thinned spots to the sitter's neck that are barely perceptible.

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Wilhelm Niemeyer Collection, Hamburg. Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032, acquired from Bassenge in 2013)

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