Akrobaten III. 1912.
Woodcut, schablonenkoloriert.
Krüger H 137. Fechter H 89. Signed and barely legibly numbered. From an edition of 125 copies on different types of paper. On firm Japon. 21.8 x 27.2 cm (8.5 x 10.7 in). Sheet: 31,8 x 41,8 cm (12,5 x 16,5 in).
Released in "Die Schaffenden", 1st vol., 1st portfolio, sheet 6, 1920 (with blindstamp). [AR].
• Stencil-colored woodcut with fine colors and with the motif of acrobats/circus charcaterttsic of the time.
• The artist was so fascinated by the motif that he made three consecutive color woodcuts in 1912.
• Other copies are in, among others, the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection, Los Angeles, and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

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).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 22 (with illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022)
Brückenschlag: Gerlinger – Buchheim!, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 28, 2017 - February 25, 2018, pp. 254-255 (with color illu.).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 248, SHG no. 355 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p.400, SHG no. 873 (with illu.).

"Cabarate, nature, exoticism - all these important topoi of early modernity merge in this small picture and become a manifesto."
Brückenschlag: Gerlinger – Buchheim!, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, October 28, 2017 - February 25, 2018, p 254.