Landschaft mit Sonne und kahlen Bäumen. 1920.
Etching.
Signed and inscribed with the work number "2017". On firm copper plate printing paper. 23.7 x 29.2 cm (9.3 x 11.4 in). Sheet: 34,7 x 47,2 cm (13,6 x 18,5 in).
Printed by Fritz Voigt, Berlin. [CH].

• Only three copies of this etching have been offered on the international auction market in the last 20 years (source: artprice.com).
• Another copy of this etching is in the collection of the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.
• Schmidt-Rottluff is not only concerned with the depiction of the landscape, but also with the organization of the composition of clear forms, lines and hatching.
• The artist achieves a stylization of the landscape.

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

EXHIBITION: 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: Rosa Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Graphisches Werk bis 1923, [Berlin 1924] reprint New York 1987, no. R 34.
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Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 392, SHG no. 680 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 92, SHG no. 194 (illu.).

In good condition. Upper left corner with small material loss. The wide margin with isolated areas of faint wear and rubbing. The lower right corner bumped and professionally restored.