Art (1900-1945) > Expressionism Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Biography
Mittag der Zimmerleute. 1923.
Woodcut.
Signed, dated and inscribed with the work number “2317”. On firm wove paper. 39.6 x 49.8 cm (15.5 x 19.6 in). Sheet: 54,9 x 64,2 cm (21,6 x 25,2 in).
Printed by Fritz Voigt, Berlin. [AR].
PROVENANCE: Private collection, USA.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1978; Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich).
In family ownership since.
LITERATURE: Rosa Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Graphisches Werk bis 1923, Berlin 1924, catalogue raisonné no. H 292 (without b/w illustration in the plate volume).
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Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 27th auction, 20th Century Art, May 23, 1978, lot 1746 (illustrated in b/w on p. 221).
Magdalena M. Moeller (ed.), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Die Holzstöcke, Munich 2011, no. 150 (with ill. of a reprint).
In good condition. Minimal mount staining. Isolated brown spots in the margins and brown traces of an old mounting in the upper right and lower left. The upper left corner with a rebacked defect and small faint creases.
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