Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff 1884 - 1976 Häuser am Weg. 1922. Watercolor and ink pen. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Inscribed by the artist on the reverse. On firm paper. 59.8 x 48 cm (23.5 x 18.8 in), the full sheet. [CH]. • A detailed watercolor with vivid colors and a painterly quality. • Schmidt-Rottluff combines bold colors, a landscape transformed and distorted into densely arranged, flat forms, and a futuristic vitality and expressiveness to create a captivating composition. • Part of a German private collection for 30 years. • In the 1920s, he developed a novel, expressively heightened visual language, particularly in his landscape depictions. • As in previous years, the artist spent the summer months of 1922 in Jershöft on the Pomeranian Baltic Sea coast, a place that would shape his experience of the landscape and its artistic interpretations for more than two decades. The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin. PROVENANCE: Private collection (gifted from the artist; remained in the family until 1994, Christie’s, London). Galerie Thomas, Munich (presumably acquired from Christie’s, London, in 1994). Dietmar Manke Collection, Schleswig-Holstein (acquired from the above in 1997). LITERATURE: Christie’s, London, German and Austrian Art. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Pictures, Drawings, Prints, and Sculpture, October 13, 1994, lot 113 (with illustration). Weltkunst, vol. 66, no. 13, July 1, 1996, p. 1477 (advertisement). Magdalena M. Moeller (ed.) and Christiane Remm, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Aquarelle, Munich 2011, p. 37 (with ill., no. 29, p. 38). “The flow of the path in ‘Houses Along the Way’ has great significance for the composition. Depth (in the sense of perspective), as well as emotional and spiritual depth arise in Schmidt-Rottluff’s watercolors through shifts and distortions, through the emphasis on diagonals, and through close juxtapositions of color fields. Here we see echoes of his exploration of Futurism, which he had encountered in Berlin around 1912 and which had influenced his painting during that period.” Christiane Remm, in: Magdalena M. Moeller (ed.) and Christiane Remm, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Aquarelle, Munich 2011, p. 37. Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 17.04 h +/- 20 min.

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