Villa mit Turm. 1911.
Woodcut.
Schapire H 68. Signed and dated. Inscribed "Villa" and numbered "53". On Ingres laid paper. 50 x 39.4 cm (19.6 x 15.5 in). Sheet: 61,8 x 50,7 cm (24,3 x 19,9 in).
It was not before 1919 that the artist made prints from the wooden printing block dated 1911. [KT].
• Owing to the strong simplification, this is one of the artist's most radical compositions and has a remarkable effect.
• Made during the prolific stay in Dangast.
• This is one of the artist's most impressive woodcuts.
• Prints with this motif are at the Hamburg Kunsthalle and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt a. Main.

The sheet is registered in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1985, with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: 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).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 21 (with illu.).
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.224f., SHG no. 302 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 53, SHG no. 84 (with illu.).