By Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976)
Title: "Zwei Frauen (Two Women)"
Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman)
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1918
Medium: Original Woodcut on cream wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany
Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany
Overall size with attached page: 8.5" x 10.63"
Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38"
Image size: 6.5" x 3.63"
Reference: Schapire No. 222, page 45; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118
Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). A few tiny pinholes in right margin. In very good condition
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. Presently attached to its accompanying page. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Biography:
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died August 9, 1976, West Berlin [now Berlin]), German painter and printmaker who was noted for his Expressionist landscapes and nudes.
In 1905 Schmidt-Rottluff began to study architecture in Dresden, Germany, where he and his friend Erich Heckel met Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl...
Category
1910s Expressionist Nicholas SPERAKIS Prints and Multiples
