Asta: 533 / Modern Art Day Sale and Gerlinger Collection del 10 dicembre 2022 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 408

 

408
Hermann Max Pechstein
Mitgliedskarte für die passiven Mitglieder der "Brücke" für 1909
Woodcut, two parts
Stima:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,160
Risultato:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200

( commissione inclusa)
Mitgliedskarte für die passiven Mitglieder der "Brücke" für 1909. 1907/1909.
Woodcut, two parts.
Bolliger 33. Krüger H 52. On thin, slightly brownish cardboard. Each woodcut 9.8 x 9.8 cm (3.8 x 3.8 in). Cardboard: 12 x 24,2 cm (4,7 x 9,5 in).
Issued for "Herr Professor E. Kirchner / Chemnitz" (by hand in ink). [KT].
• A very special copy: issued for Ernst Kirchner (1847–1921), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's father, professor at the 'Technische Lehranstalt' in Chemnitz, passive member since Oct./Dec. 1907.
• Only very few copies of the original woodcut are known, of which two are museum-owned; in 1909 Pechstein added the text plate to the card.
• First copy on the auction market (source: artprice.com)
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PROVENANCE: Prof. Ernst Kirchner (1847-1921), Chemnitz (as of 1909).
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (until May 28, 1990: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer).
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032, acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Hans Bolliger, E. W. Kornfeld (eds.), Ausstellung Künstlergruppe Brücke. Jahresmappen 1906-1912, Bern 1958, p. 25, no. 33 (with illu., different copy).
Hans Bolliger, Die Publikationen und Dokumente der Künstlergruppe "Brücke", in: Philobiblon, year III, issue 1, March 1959, pp. 41-71, no. 30 (with illu., different copy)).
Günter Krüger, Max Pechstein-Archiv (ed.), Das druckgraphische Werk Max Pechsteins, Tökendorf 1988, H 52 (with illu., different copy)).
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 150th auction, 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, catalog I, May 28, 1990, lot 354 (with black-and-white illu.).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 107, SHG no. 55 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 389, SHG no. 857 (with illu.).

Max Pechstein took over the design of the 1909 membership card. Pechstein prints the motif of the bathers from a 10 x 10 cm woodblock he had cut in 1907 and added a text woodcut of the same format to it. Depending on the folding, the woodcuts form the inner or outer sides of the card.
The present copy in the Hermann Gerlinger Collection is clearly assigned to Ernst Kirchner by the handwritten designation on the card. He was the father of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and a passive member of the "Brücke" since 1907. [MvL]



408
Hermann Max Pechstein
Mitgliedskarte für die passiven Mitglieder der "Brücke" für 1909
Woodcut, two parts
Stima:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,160
Risultato:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200

( commissione inclusa)