Asta: 533 / Modern Art Day Sale and Gerlinger Collection del 10 dicembre 2022 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 434


434
Ausstellungskatalog
Katalog für die Ausstellung der Künstlergruppe "Brücke" in der Galerie Gurlitt, Berlin, April 1912.
Catalog with blue wrapper, the title Woodcut by...
Stima:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,050
Risultato:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400

( commissione inclusa)
Katalog für die Ausstellung der Künstlergruppe "Brücke" in der Galerie Gurlitt, Berlin. April 1912.
Catalog with blue wrapper, the title Woodcut by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, eight text pages, nine original woodcuts, a lithographic reproduction of a drawing by Otto Mueller and six pages with photographs of paintings.
Söhn HDO 608-1 to 608-9. The wrapper is made of firm blue wove paper with red paper. Text and original woodcuts on rose-tinted rag paper. The photographs of the paintings on smooth, rose-tinted paper. Pages ca. 23.5 x 18.8 cm (9.2 x 7.4 in). Wrapper: 25,2 x 19,9 cm (9,9 x 7,8 in).
Title woodcut by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Gercken A-68 I. 15.3 x 5.8 cm (6 x 2.3 in) and 10 original woodcuts from 1912 by:
Erich Heckel. "Badende am Teich". Ebner/Gabelmann 540 H I. 13.3 x 10.8 cm (5.2 x 4.3 in).
Erich Heckel. "Sich Waschende". Ebner/Gabelmann 541 H. Monogrammed in printing block. 13 x 10.6 cm (5.1 x 4.2 in).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. "Schleudertanz". Gercken A-69 B. Monogrammed in printing block. 12.8 x 10.7 cm (5 x 4.2 in).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. "Toilette. – Mädchen beim Hutaufsetzen". Gercken A-70 II B. Monogrammed in printing block. 12.7 x 10.6 cm (5 x 4.2 in).
Otto Mueller. "Drei sitzende Mädchen". Karsch 4. 11 x 12.8 cm (4.3 x 5.3 in).
Hermann Max Pechstein. "Landschaft mit Turm und Reitern". Krüger H 159. 10.7 x 12.9 cm (4,2 x 5,1 in).
Hermann Max Pechstein. "Schwermut". Krüger H 158. With artist's name and title in printing block. 13 x 10.9 cm (5.1 x 4.3 in).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. "Kämmende Frauen". Schapire H 97. 13.2 x 11 cm (5.2 x 4.3 in).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. "Sitzendes Mädchen". Schapire H 98. 13.3 x 10.8 cm (5.2 x 4.3 in).
Printed by Rich. Gärtnersche Buchdruckerei / Heinrich Niescher, Dresden. [AM].
• Rare copy of the catalog for the important exhibition at Galerie Gurlitt (1912).
• Lavishly made catalog of documentary character.
• With nine original woodcuts by the "Brücke" artists
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PROVENANCE: Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (since 1986: Hauswedell, with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).

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, Ausstellung Künstlergruppe Brücke. Jahresmappen 1906-1912, Bern 1958, pp. 29-30, 42/1-42/3, 42/5-42/6, 42/8-42/10, 43/6-43/7 (different copy).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, auction 263, June 8/9, 1986, lot 140.
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 20, SHG no. 82.
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 324, SHG no. 734.
Buchheim Museum (ed.), Brückenschlag: Gerlinger - Buchheim! Museumsführer durch die "Brücke"-Sammlungen von Hermann Gerlinger und Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Feldafing 2017, p. 54 (with illu. on p. 55).

On the occasion of the exhibition at Galerie Arnold in Dresden in 1910, the "Active Members of the Brücke" produced a joint catalog for the first time: today it is a document of the common goals and the mutual respect within the group of artists. For the exhibition at Galerie Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin in 1912, the present second catalog was created by the artists, but with a free choice of motifs. Again, an excellent document of the "Brücke" and of early Expressionism in general. The exhibition at Gurlitt's in April was subsequently shown at 'Rudolf Bangel's Kunsthandlung mit Auktionshaus' in Frankfurt a. M. in June and at the Hamburg Galerie Commeter in August/September 1912.
In 1880 Fritz Gurlitt, son of the landscape painter Louis Gurlitt, founded the gallery of the same name in Berlin and advertised contemporary art, at that time with representatives such as Arnold Böcklin, Anselm Feuerbach, Wilhelm Leibl, Hans Thoma, Max Liebermann, Lesser Ury and others. After his death in 1893, the gallery was taken over by his son Wolfgang Gurlitt, who continued to run it until 1943. After 1945, Wolfgang Gurlitt maintained an own gallery in Munich.
Compared to the Dresden catalog, the exhibited works are only listed summarily this time, including six "sculptures" each by Heckel and Kirchner. Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff freely illustrated three exhibits each on full-page original woodcuts, Otto Mueller a lithograph and Max Pechstein with two very rare woodcuts.
Even during the joint presentation at the Gurlitt Gallery, or rather the collection's stay in Frankfurt, tensions arose between the members and a dispute about Pechstein arose. Pechstein showed works as a guest at the Berlin Secession, contrary to the group's agreement to only exhibit together, and was therefore excluded from the "Brücke". This decision had direct influence on the exhibition catalog that was to accompany the presentation in Hamburg. The two woodcuts and the page with the references to the number of his works - "8 pictures 6 drawings" - were removed and replaced by works from Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (or Karl Schmidt-Rottluff). The different editions thus reveal the implementation of their decision by the remaining four "Brücke" artists, a first step towards the dissolution on May 27, 1913.
Galerie Commeter is the oldest art dealer in Hamburg and was founded by Georg Ernst Harzen (1790-1862) in 1821. In 1878 Wilhelm Suhr took the gallery over, ever since it has been operated as a family business.
The art house Rudolf Bangel in Frankfurt a. M. was founded in 1868 and became increasingly involved with the artist group "Brücke", showing touring exhibitions in 1909, 1911 and 1912. (Georg Reinhardt, Brücke Archive, 1977/78, pp. 191ff.) [MvL]



434
Ausstellungskatalog
Katalog für die Ausstellung der Künstlergruppe "Brücke" in der Galerie Gurlitt, Berlin, April 1912.
Catalog with blue wrapper, the title Woodcut by...
Stima:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,050
Risultato:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400

( commissione inclusa)