Woodcut. Signed. With teh stamp Verbindung zur Förderung deutscher Kunst, vormals Verbindung für historische Kunst". On wove paper. 39 x 49.7 cm. Sheet: 53,6 x 69,8 cm.
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- Once part of the art collection of the cigarette manufacturer Heinrich Neuerburg (company "Haus Neuerburg" in Cologne from 1921), which mainly comprised prints from the late 19th and early 20th century, including works by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel and Max Pechstein. - Depictions of landscapes in moonlight have been one of the defining motifs of Schmidt-Rottluff's oeuvre since the "Brücke" years. - Several copies of this woodcut are in museum collections like the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, the Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, and the Kulturhistorisches Museum, Rostock.
LITERATURE: Ernest Rathenau, Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff. Das graphische Werk seit 1923, New York 1964, no. H 30. Gerhart Söhn, Handbuch der Original-Graphik in deutschen Zeitschriften, Mappenwerken, Kunstbüchern und Katalogen, vol. VII, Düsseldorf 1998, no. 731-2. - - Sotheby's, London, Old Masters, Modern and Contemporary Prints, October 20, 2000, lot 324. Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 111, SHG no. 249 (illu.).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff 
