Heugeruch. 1906.
Lithograph.
Signed, dated and titled. Signed in the stone (mirror inverted). On wove paper. 21.5 x 32 cm (8.4 x 12.5 in). Sheet: 34 x 47,5 cm (13,3 x 18,7 in).
Printed by Dresdner Kunstanstalt, Dresden. [JS].

• One of Schmidt-Rottluff's first lithographs, created around Dresden in 1906.
• Made directly on the stone without transfer paper, Schmidt-Rottluff achieved a finely nuanced print with a strong concentration of the line in the center.
• According to Kirchner in the "Brücke" chronicle, Schmidt-Rottluff introduced the technique of lithography to the circle of "Brücke" artists.
• Rare print from the early "Brücke" period.
• To date, only two other prints have been offered on the international art market (source: artprice.com).

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).
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. L 2 (illu. in black and white, plate volume).

Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 206, SHG no. 260 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 35, SHG no. 35 (illu.).

"During the first years of the Brücke, lithography was his [=Schmidt-Rottluff's] main discipline, because he was able to wrest all its inherent expressive possibilities from it in the first impetuous attack [..]. "
Gerhard Wietek, Schmidt-Rottluff. Graphik, Munich 1971, p. 27.

Good overall impression. The margins with isolated creases and signs of compression as well as a few small tears in the sheet edges. Lower center with a somewhat larger, professionally closed tear in the lower margin. Slightly browned, more obvious in the wide margin, there also slightly rubbed and soiled, as well as with isolated pressure marks from the lithographic.