Verschneite Schonung. Frühe 1940s.
Colored chalk drawing over India ink.
Signed in lower right. On laid paper. 27 x 40 cm (10.6 x 15.7 in), the full sheet. [SM/CH].

The painting “Verschneite Schonung” (1964) from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection that corresponds to this work is offered in our Evening Sale on Friday, June 7, 2024 (see separate catalog Expressionism: The New Reality. Hermann Gerlinger Collection”).
• An important emotional motif from his home in Rottluff, which he would paint in oil some twenty years later - his last painting.
• Burdened with an occupation ban since 1941, he created small gems of particularly delicate colors in the seclusion of the countryside.
• Exhibited in the comprehensive Karl Schmidt-Rottluff retrospective exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich in 1989.

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

PROVENANCE: Aus Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp on the reverse, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Bremen, July 16 - September 10, 1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, September 27 - December 3, 1989, p. 288, cat. no. 314 (illu., plate 115).
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. 419, SHG no. 754 (illu., p. 418).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 121, SHG no. 274 (illu.).