Asta: 533 / Modern Art Day Sale and Gerlinger Collection del 10 dicembre 2022 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 410

 

410
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Mitgliedskarte für das Jahr 1911, 1910.
Woodcut, in three parts
Stima:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,480
Risultato:
€ 21,250 / $ 22,950

( commissione inclusa)
Mitgliedskarte für das Jahr 1911. 1910.
Woodcut, in three parts.
Schapire G 13. Bolliger 35. Lower left signed and dated. On reddish brown cardboard. Each woodcut 16.7 x 12.7 cm (6.5 x 5 in). Sheet: 21,5 x 44,4 cm (8,4 x 17,4 in).
Issued for "F. Hassler" (with inscription in ink). Printed by the Brückenpresse. [KT].
• Last "Brücke" membership card.
• Particularly large and representative sheet that Schmidt-Rottluff conceived as a triptych.
• From the possession of Franz Hassler (1874–1942), a friend of Rosa Schapire and Wilhelm Niemeyer, who would take over artworks from Hassler's collection after he had passed away.
• The chemist, philosopher and collector Franz Hassler had a particular liking for Schmidt-Rottluff's works and was in close contact with him, especially in Hamburg in 1911
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The work is documented at the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Franz Hassler (1874–1942), Hamburg-Volksdorf.
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff zum 100. Geburtstag, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, 3.6.-12.8.1984, Kat.-Nr. 171.
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Die Brücke und die Moderne, 1904-1914, Bucerius-Kunst-Forum, Hamburg, October 17, 2004 - January 23, 2005, cat. no. 53 (with illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Rosa Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs graphisches Werk bis 1923, Berlin 1924, G 13.
Ernest Rathenau (ed.), Rosa Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: graphisches Werk bis 1923, Tafelband, New York 1987, G 13 (with illu. different copy).
Hans Bolliger, E. W. Kornfeld (eds.), Ausstellung Künstlergruppe Brücke. Jahresmappen 1906-1912, Bern 1958, p. 25, no. 35. (with illu. different copy).
Hans Bolliger, Die Publikationen und Dokumente der Künstlergruppe "Brücke“, in: Philobiblon, year III, issue 1, March 1959, pp. 41-71, no. 32 (with illu., different copy).
Hans Bolliger, Die Publikationen und Dokumente der Künstlergruppe "Brücke“, in: Die Jahresmappen der "Brücke“ 1906-1912, ed. by Magdalena Moeller, ex. cat. Brücke-Museum Berlin, Berlin 1989, pp. 12-31 (with illu. p. 22, different copy).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 115, SHG no. 71 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 51, SHG no. 76 (with illu.).

For the membership card of 1911, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff modeled his card on the scheme of Max Pechstein's card, but expanded the diptych into a triptych: two half-nudes, typical of the artist, flank the text panel in the center. Like Kirchner and Pechstein, Schmidt-Rottluff developed a powerful, unique typeface. The 1911 membership card woul de the last. After the Dresden "Brücke" artists had moved to Berlin in 1911, the idea of a group lost in importance. And perhaps this is also the reason why no new membership card was designed in 1912; it would probably have been Otto Mueller's turn.
The food chemist Franz Hassler (1874-1942) lived in Hamburg and was probably recruited as member by Rosa Schapire in 1910. He was also friends with the art historian Wilhelm Niemeyer, another passive member and supporter of Schmidt-Rottluff during the his Hamburg period. [MvL]



410
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Mitgliedskarte für das Jahr 1911, 1910.
Woodcut, in three parts
Stima:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,480
Risultato:
€ 21,250 / $ 22,950

( commissione inclusa)