122000240
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Doppelkette, 1918.
Silver
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 13,800
Sold:
€ 43,180 / $ 49,656

(incl. surcharge)
122000240
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Doppelkette, 1918.
Silver
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 13,800
Sold:
€ 43,180 / $ 49,656

(incl. surcharge)

Doppelkette. 1918.
Silver cut, chased, amber, natural finish, chain links in the shape of rectangular, flat and curled small plate jointed by eyelets.
Wietek 424. One chain link with signature stamp. Length: up to 84 cm (33 in).
[SM].
• Presumably the only piece of jewelry made in 1918, the year Schmidt-Rottluff returned from war.
• Before WWI, Schmidt-Rottluff had a studio at the house of the Friedmanns in Hamburg.
• Schmidt-Rottluff's jewelry objects are extremely rare on the auction market (source: artprice. com)
.

PROVENANCE: Mrs E.F. Friedmann, Hamburg.
Emy Schmidt-Rottluff.
Artist's estate.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg.

EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Grafik, Bernsteinschmuck, Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Königsberg/Kunstverein Königsberg, Königsberg 1928, cat. no. 70.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Das nachgelassene Werk seit den 20er Jahren. Malerei, Plastik, Kunsthandwerk, Brücke-Museum Berlin, August 20, 1977 - January 15, 1978, cat. no. 142.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Aquarelle, Farbstiftzeichnungen, Schmuck, Kunstverein Paderborn, 1982, cat. no. 2.
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).
Nur für ihre Frauen. Schmuck von Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde, Erich Heckel und Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), October 26, 2003 - January 11, 2004, no. 18 (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. 382f., SHG no. 661 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 83, SHG no. 173 (with illu.).

In good condition. Silver slightly oxidized, amber in natural finish.






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