Schwere See. Um 1913.
Oil on canvas.
Warmt G 524. Signed in lower left. 105 x 165.3 cm (41.3 x 65 in).

We are grateful to Dr. Hendrikje Warmt, Karl Hagemeister archive & catalog raisonné Berlin, for her kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Neumeister, Munich, auctions on 30 May, 1989, lot 92 (with color illu.).
Private collection North Rhinen-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Berliner Secession, Berlin 1917, cat. no. 47.
Städtische Kunstsammlung Kassel, Neue Galerie, as loan from September 6, 1974 to January 7, 1983 in the permanent exhibition (verso with the museum's label).
Max Liebermann - Karl Hagemeister, Gemälde Cabinett Unger, Munich 1988, cover image.

LITERATURE: Dr. Manfred Sonneborn, Karl Friedrich Hagemeister. Gemälde und Zeichnungen eines Märkischen Malers. Inventory catalog (vol. I: Werke in Privatbesitz), Berlin 2010, p. 55 (no. O-09-17).
"When I painted the big wave, which is now shown at the Nationalgalerie, there was a particularly strong storm in Lohme on Rügen, where I painted four big seascapes in two days: one in the morning and one in the afternoon. In between I had a strong coffee. When I was working on one of the pictures, there suddenly was such a strong breaking wave that I got my buttocks wet and half of my oil tubes were lost, but I continued to paint. I was awarded grand medal for this. After I had finished the four sea pictures in just two days I said: "Well, now the storm may as well stop!" (quoted from: Karl Hagemeister, in: Warmt, Hagemeister, Berlin 2016, p. 171)