Russische Landschaft mit Kreuzweg. 1919.
Woodcut.
Signed and with the work number "197". Inscribed "239 russ Landschaft mit Kreuzweg" and numbered "I 4" in the lower margin. On wove paper. 39.4 x 49.7 cm (15.5 x 19.5 in). Sheet: 53,3 x 71 cm (21 x 28 in).
Printed by Fritz Voigt, Berlin. [KT].

• Motifs of the entire Baltic Sea region from Fehmarn to Lithuania and Russia characterize the landscapes of the post-war years.
• Highly dynamic composition in the interplay of surface and space.
• Created in Berlin in the year of an artistic new beginning.

PROVENANCE:
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION:
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).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, p. 99, cat. no. 54 (illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE:
Rosa Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Graphisches Werk bis 1923, [Berlin 1924] reprint New York 1987, no. H 239 (illu. in black and white, plate vol.).

Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 384f., SHG no. 666 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, pp. 84f., SHG no. 177 (illu.).

In good condition. Slight handling creases in the margins with isolated faint smoothed creases, faint small bumps in places of the sheet edges. Tiny pinholes in the upper left corner.