Bootsentladung auf der Elbe. 1906/07.
India ink drawing over pencil.
Lower right monogrammed. On transparent paper. 11.9 x 16.3 cm (4.6 x 6.4 in), the full sheet.
[AM].
• Characterful work from the artist's sought-after "Brücke“ period.
• The ink pen drawings are among Fritz Bleyl's artistic techniques.
• Dynamic composition from the artist's small oeuvre.

PROVENANCE: Barbara Wentzel, Stuttgart (inherited from Prof. Dr. Hans Wentzel, presumably in 1975).
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1987, with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Fritz Bleyl und die frühen Jahre der „Brücke“, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schleswig / Städtisches Museum, Zwickau, July-March 1999/2000, cat. no.44 (with illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 374, SHG no. 830 (with illu.).