Liegender Rückenakt. 1913.
Chalk drawing.
Lower left signed and dated. On yellowish wove paper. 43 x 60 cm (16.9 x 23.6 in), size of sheet.
[KT].

• Made during the productive period during summer stays in Nida.
• Scores of drawings served as basis for large paintings of nudes in dunes.
• Nudes from this era are at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Nationalgalerie Berlin and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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, Schleswig, June 3 - August 12, 1984, cat. no. 90 (with illu.).
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Bremen, June 16 - September 10, 1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, September 27 -December 3, 1989, cat. no. 147 (with black-and-white illu.).
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. 190 (with illu.)


LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, SHG no. 605 (with illu.).
Gunther Thiem, Die Verwandlung der Venus. Schmidt-Rottluffs Akt-Zeichnungen von 1909 bis 1913, Munich/Berlin 2003, no. 62 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, SHG no. 116 (with illu.).

In good condition. Margins and corners with isolated faint handling marks. Corners with barely visible pinholes.