Pfade im Dünengelände. 1938.
Watercolor.
Signed and inscribed with the work number "3856" lower right. On P.M.Fabriano wove paper (with the watermark). 50.5 x 69.5 cm (19.8 x 27.3 in), the full sheet. [EH].

• Atmospheric view of Lake Leba in Pomerania , where Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff spent many summers in the 1930s and 1940s.
• Following his stays in Jershöft, Schmidt-Rottluff discovered the area around Lake Leba as a new source of artistic inspiration.
• In private North German ownership for over 30 years.
• A new interpretation of the landscape in striking clarity.

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

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Northern Germany.

LITERATURE: Grisebach, Berlin, Kunst des 19.und 20. Jahrhunderts, auction 60, November 29, 1997, lot 208 (illu. in color).