Sale: 539 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 10. 2023 in Munich Lot 328

 

328
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Frühling am See, 1938.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 41,148

(incl. surcharge)
Frühling am See. 1938.
Watercolor.
Signed in lower right. On wove paper. 51 x 69.5 cm (20 x 27.3 in), the full sheet.

• Lake Leba was an important retreat for Schmidt-Rottluff.
• It was the place where he revived the genre with his "new landscape pictures" in the 1930s.
• Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's sheets are a highlight of 20th century watercolor art.
• Similar works can be found at, among others, the Brücke-Museum in Berlin and the Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Dresden
.

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

PROVENANCE: 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. 117
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).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 413, SHG no. 742 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 116, SHG no. 263 (with illu.).

The landscape around Lake Leba finds a strong echo in Schmidt-Rottluff's work. This largest of the Pomeranian lakes provided the artist with a variety of motifs at the different times of the day. The artist came here for the first time in 1932, and over the course of ten years he kept returning to this magical place, as he had found his personal and artistic retreat in nature during times that were not only difficult for him. Our sheet from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection shows the strong expressiveness of the colors, dense and solid in the foreground, the application of paint dissolves over the horizon towards the sky in translucence. [EH]



328
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Frühling am See, 1938.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 41,148

(incl. surcharge)