2020 EXHIBITORS
GALLERIES/Arnoldi-Livie
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
1884 - 1976
Woman Bathing
1913
Watercolor over black chalk
340 × 428 mm. (13 ⅜ × 16 ⅔ in.)
Signed and dated lower right 'S. Rottluff 1913'
PROVENANCE:
Galerie R. Hoffmann, Hamburg;Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 153th auction, June 1974, lot 1130;
Private collection, Munich;
Private collection, Brandenburg.
LITERATURE:
Gunther Thiem, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff – Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Munich 1963, p. 19, 34 and 98, color ill. p. 35;
Gunther Thiem, Die Verwandlungen der Venus, Schmidt-Rottluffs Akt-Zeichnungen von 1909-1913, Munich/Berlin 2003, p.106, no.58, color ill.
EXHIBITION HISTORY:
Brücke 1905 – 1913 – eine Künstlergemeinschaft des Expressionismus, Museum Folkwang, Essen, October 12 – December 14, 1958, cat. no. 214;
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff – Gemälde, Aquarelle, Graphik, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, June 7 – July 5, 1964, cat. no. 50, ill.;
Das Aquarell der Brücke, Brücke Museum Berlin, September 5 – November 16, 1975, no. 128, plate 42.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
„...The power of its gesture, captured in outline and the volume of the body forced into the picture plane by color, allowing this nude to appear as if it were cast from a seamless mold. Somehow colossal, but never crude, thanks to the delicacy of the wash..."Excerpt from Günther Thiem, Die Verwandlung der Venus, Schmidt-Rottluffs Akt-Zeichnungen von 1909-1913, Munich/Berlin 2003, p. 106