Sale: 539 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 10. 2023 in Munich Lot 372

 

372
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Steilküste, 1970.
Watercolor and Ink brush
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 30,480 / $ 32,918

(incl. surcharge)
Steilküste. 1970.
Watercolor and Ink brush.
Lower right signed. With the work number and the title "70/9" on the reverse. On Ingres laid paper. 40 x 54 cm (15.7 x 21.2 in), the full sheet.
[KT].

• One of the artist's last landscape watercolors.
• In terms of colors, the watercolor testifies to the artist's unbowed outstanding mastery.
• Made in Sierksdorf on the Baltic Sea, Schmidt-Rottluff's creative retreat over decades
.

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

PROVENANCE:
Brinke & Riemenschneider, Hamburg.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION:
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff zum 100. Geburtstag, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, June 3 - August 12, 1984, cat. no. 138 (with illu.).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Bremen, June 16 - September 10, 1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich, September 27 - December 3, 1989, cat. no. 352 (with black-and-white illu.)
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).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).
Schmidt-Rottluff. Form, Farbe, Ausdruck!, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, September 29, 2018 - February 3, 2019, p. 321 (with illu.).

LITERATURE:
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 437, SHG no. 788 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 138, SHG no. 310 (with illu.).




372
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Steilküste, 1970.
Watercolor and Ink brush
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 30,480 / $ 32,918

(incl. surcharge)