Silberdisteln. 1961.
Watercolor and India ink.
Lower right signed. Titled and dated on the reverse. On firm Schoeller wove paper (with blindstamp). 49.7 x 70.3 cm (19.5 x 27.6 in), the full sheet.
[KT].
• Particularly gaudy watercolor from the 1960s.
• Flower still lifes and landscapes were his main motifs at that time.
• Schmidt-Rottluff creates a wonderful autumnal atmosphere.

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

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff zum 100. Geburtstag, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, June 3 - August 12, 1984, cat. no. 135.
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).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 428-429, SHG no. 777 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 131, SHG no. 298 (with illu.).

In good condition. With strong colors. Sheet all in all minimally wavy.