Asta: 530 / Evening Sale / The Hermann Gerlinger Collection del 10 giugno 2022 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 3

 

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Unter der Brücke, 1905.
xilografia
Stima:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,320
Risultato:
€ 12,500 / $ 13,500

( commissione inclusa)
Unter der Brücke. 1905.
Woodcut.
Not in Schapire. Gerlinger H 05-11. Monogrammed in printing block. Signed "Karl Schmidt". Inscribed and dated "Erster Druck 1905" in lower left. On creme laid paper. 16 x 22.6 cm (6.2 x 8.8 in). Sheet: 22,5 x 28 cm (8,8 x 11 in).
[KT].

• Offered on the international auction market for the first time.
• This rare and very early woodcut from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff has an enormous effect.
• Japanese color woodcuts from the 19th century, for instance by Utagawa Hiroshige, may have served as model
.

PROVENANCE: Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the colletor stamp).

EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: das graphische Werk. Zum 90. Geburtstag des Künstlers, Brücke-Museum, Berlin, September 7 - December 8, 1974, cat. no. 6 (with illu.).
Die Brücke im Aufbruch. Ausstellung aus eigenem Besitz zur 75. Wiederkehr des Gründungstages der Brücke am 7. Juni 1905, Brücke-Museum, Berlin, June 7 - July 13, 1980, cat.- no. 79 (with illu.).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Bremen, June 16 - September 10, 1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, September 27 - December 3, 1989, p. 219, cat. no. 20 (with illu.).
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Die Brücke in Dresden. 1905-1911, Dresdner Schloss, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister, Ocotber 20, 2001 - January 6, 2002, cat. no. 127 (with illu.).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina, Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 2 (with illu.).
Schmidt-Rottluff. Form, Farbe, Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried am Starnberger See, September 29, 2018 - February 3, 2019, p. 114 (with illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Horst Jähner, Künstlergruppe Brücke. Geschichte einer Gemeinschaft und das Lebenswerk ihrer Repräsentanten, Berlin 1984, p. 21 (with illu. no. 16).
Heinz Spielmann (editor), Die Maler der Brücke. Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 204, SHG no. 255 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (editor), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 29, SHG no. 29 (with illu.).

This woodcut by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, which is rare for its colossal effect, was created during the founding period of the "Brücke". The choice of motif is therefore certainly not accidental, since Ernst Ludwig Kirchner probably also chose the motif of a bridge at the same time as a direct reference to the name of the new artist group, and he also made a woodcut with an unambiguous designation (Fig. 1). In both cases, the Mulde Bridge in Lichtenwald/Saxony is shown, the structure of which is determined by its construction with slightly outward-facing supports and sloping struts or wave breakers (appearing in the left of the picture). Japanese color woodcuts from the 19th century, such as those by Utagawa Hiroshige, could have served as model. A bridge dominating the composition, as in the woodcut "Rain in Nihonbashi" (fig. 2), is one of those frequent motifs that had also inspired Vincent van Gogh. When presenting the woodcut "Unter der Brücke“ (Under the Bridge), Georg Reinhardt mentions that Hiroshige inspired Schmidt-Rottluff and compares it with the sheet "Moon at Dusk over the Ryogoku Bridge" from around 1831 (Fig. 3). (Brücke-Archive, issue 9/10, 1977/78) Schmidt-Rottluff contrasts the subtlety of composition and execution that is so characteristic of Hiroshige with a meaningful bridge construction. [MvL]



3
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Unter der Brücke, 1905.
xilografia
Stima:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,320
Risultato:
€ 12,500 / $ 13,500

( commissione inclusa)