Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff 1884 - 1976 Stilleben mit Vogelschale. 1953. Oil on canvas. Signed in the upper left. Signed, titled, and inscribed with the work number “531” on the reverse of the stretcher. 76.5 x 90.7 cm (30.1 x 35.7 in). [CH]. • Exceptionally modern in terms of color scheme, composition, framing, and abstract background design. • Featured in the retrospective traveling exhibition at the Academy of Arts in Berlin and the Folkwang Museum in Essen during the artist’s lifetime. • Around 1953–54, he also created a lithograph of the same name with a closely related motif (Chemnitz Art Collections). • Still lifes play a central role in Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s oeuvre. • In the 1950s, he increasingly devoted himself to his immediate surroundings and the “quiet life of things,” as he put it. The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin. PROVENANCE: GEA Group Collection, Düsseldorf (acquired in 1992). Acquired by the current owner from the above. EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff zum 80. Geburtstag. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Graphik, Kunstverein Hanover, Nov. 17, 1963–Jan. 5, 1964; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main; Academy of Arts, Berlin, June 7–July 5, 1964, cat. no. 171 (with black-and-white illustration, p. 115, on the stretcher with the exhibition label). LITERATURE: Will Grohmann, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Stuttgart 1956, pp. 276 and 307 (with b/w illustration). - - Grisebach, Berlin, 10th Auction, November 24, 1989, lot 56 (with illustration). Weltkunst, Munich, vol. 60, no. 1, Jan. 1, 1990, p. 47. Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 16.48 h +/- 20 min.

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