Elbhafen. 1907.
Lithograph.
Lower margin typographically inscribed "Elbhafen Orig.-Lithographie von Schmidt-Rottluff" and "Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst 1908". On firm creme wove paper. 19.8 x 29.8 cm (7.7 x 11.7 in). Sheet: 23,3 x 32,2 cm (9,1 x 12,6 in).
Published in "Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst", 1908, year XIX, Leipzig, E. A. Seemann Verlag. Printedby Dresdner Kunstanstalt. [AR].

• Early lithograph from the Dresden "Brücke" period.
• Schmidt-Rottluff stopped in Hamburg on his way back from a visit to Emil Nolde; the lithograph was created shortly after his stay there.

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, no.L 15 (black-and-white illu., plate vol.).

Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 211, SHG no. 268 (illu., p. 414).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 37, SHG no. 44 (illu.).

In good condition. Small traces from the making along the sheet edges.