Baum und Heuhocken am Lebasee. Early 1940s.
Colored chalk drawing over India ink.
Signed in lower right. On laid paper. 26 x 39.9 cm (10.2 x 15.7 in), the full sheet.
[MH].

• Harmonious depiction in the artist's unique style.
• After his stays in Jershöft, Schmidt-Rottluff discovered the area around Lake Leba in Pomerania as a source of inspiration.
• Exhibited in 1989 in the comprehensive Karl Schmidt-Rottluff retrospective at the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich.

The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.

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).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Retrospective, Kunsthalle Bremen, July 16 - September 10, 1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, September 27 - December 3, 1989, p. 283, cat. no. 312 (illu.).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 417, SHG no. 748 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 120, SHG no. 271 (illu.).

In good condition. Slightly browned and with slight mount staining. Two small tears in the right margin. Each with a small tear to the upper left edge and lower left corner of the sheet, partially professionally closed and professionally restored.