Holzarmreif aus Palisander mit Silberspirale. Ca. 1911/12.
Made of a singe piece of palisander, with a Silver spiral ribbon.
Diameter 8 cm (3.1 in).
[AR].
• From the estate of Rosa Schapire, author of the catalogue raisonné of prints.
• Particularly beautiful contrast between the natural wood and shiny silver.
• Pieces of jewelry by the artist are rarely offered on the auction market (source: artprice.com).

PROVENANCE: Rosa Schapire, Hamburg/London.
Artist's possession (presumably reobtained after Schapire's death in 1954).
Artist's estate.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (from the above).

EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Das nachgelassene Werk seit den 20er Jahren. Malerei, Plastik, Kunsthandwerk, Brücke-Museum, Berlin, August 20, 1977 - January 15, 1978, cat. no. 170.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Aquarelle, Farbstiftzeichnungen, Schmuck, Kunstverein Paderborn 1982, cat. no. 30.
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).
Nur für ihre Frauen. Schmuck von Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde, Erich Heckel und Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), October 26, 2003 - January 11, 2004, cat. no. 6 (color illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Gerhard Wietek, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Werkverzeichnis der Plastik und des Kunsthandwerks, Munich 2001, cat. no. 431 (color illu.).

Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 231f., SHG no. 331 (color illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 59, SHG no. 97 (color illu.).

In good condition. The silver slightly tarnished. The original wave pattern in white no longer visible (cf. description in Wietek).