Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Hockende Frau

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Hockende Frau. 1913.
Black Chalks, with watercolor.
Signed and dated below the center of the right margin. On brownish wove paper. 33.1 x 43 cm (13 x 16.9 in), size of sheet.
[KT].
• Made during the prolific heyday of nude painting during a summer stay in Nida.
• The artist prepared his large-size nudes in dunes in scores of drawings.
• Nude paintings from these days are in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Probably Hugo Erfurth Collection, Gaienhofen (until 1948).
Helene Erfurth, Gaienhofen (until 1952: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer).
Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg (acquired from the above in 1952).
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032; since 2003: Lempertz Cologne).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches 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).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. The Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Albertina, Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, p. 70, cat. no. 28 (with illus.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).
Schmidt-Rottluff. Form, color, expression!, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, September 29, 2018 - February 3, 2019, p. 192 (ill.).

LITERATURE: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, auction 16, November 25-27, 1952, lot 2050.
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Auction 842 Modern Art, May 29, 2003, lot 918, illu. in color.
Will Grohmann, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Stuttgart 1956, illu. on p. 39, list p. 249.
Gunther Thiem, Die Verwandlungen der Venus. Schmidt-Rottluffs Aktzeichnungen von 1905 bis 1913, Munich/ Berlin 2003, p. 108 (illu. 59).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, SHG no. 117 (illu.).

Good overall impression. Sheet overall slightly creased and with a few small horizontal compressions. Slightly wavy in places due to the technique. The upper edge of the sheet with a professionally backed tear. Smoothed vertical creases in the lower left and right central margin.
For information concerning the condition, please view the high resolution image / backside image.