Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
1884 - 1976
Der rote Stuhl. 1951.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right. Once more signed, titled and inscribed with the work number "516", as well as "gewachst" on the reverse of the stretcher. 101 x 76.2 cm (39.7 x 30 in).
[AR].
• MODERN Exceptionally modern in its use of color, perspective, and composition.
• STUDIO A private glimpse into the artist’s studio, rendered in powerful, pure colors.
• SYMBOL The chair becomes a symbol of human imagination.
• BEITZ COLLECTION Directly from the artist to Berthold and Else Beitz.
• EXHIBITIONS Exhibited many times during the artist’s lifetime.
The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Berthold and Else Beitz Collection (directly from the artist).
Private collection Northern Germany (inherited from the above).
Dietmar Manke Collection, Schleswig-Holstein (since 2022, Ketterer Kunst).
EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, April 8 - May 11, 1952, cat. no. 36.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Neue Werke - Gemälde, Tuschblätter, Graphik, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Cologne, May 1953, cat. no. 5 (with illu., with the label on the reverse).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff zum 70. Geburtstag. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Skulpturen, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, June 20 - July 25, 1954, cat. no. 56.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff zum 70. Geburtstag, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, September 20 - October 10, 1954, cat. no. 92.
Fränkische Galerie, Nuremberg, 1954, cat. no. 74.
Städtische Galerie, Duisburg, 1955, cat. no. 47.
LITERATURE: Will Grohmann, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Stuttgart 1956, pp. 233/306 (illustrated in black and white).
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Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction 533, Modern Art Day Sale and Hermann Gerlinger Collection, December 10, 2022, lot 512 (illustrated in color).
"I think most paintings are about procedures; I always wanted to show the being and the calm and quiet life of the things."
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1960, quoted from: Hans Kinkel, Das stille Leben der Dinge, in: Gunther Thiem (ed.), Schmidt-Rottluff. Retrospektive, Munich 1989, pp. 69-70
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
1884 - 1976
Der rote Stuhl. 1951.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right. Once more signed, titled and inscribed with the work number "516", as well as "gewachst" on the reverse of the stretcher. 101 x 76.2 cm (39.7 x 30 in).
[AR].
• MODERN Exceptionally modern in its use of color, perspective, and composition.
• STUDIO A private glimpse into the artist’s studio, rendered in powerful, pure colors.
• SYMBOL The chair becomes a symbol of human imagination.
• BEITZ COLLECTION Directly from the artist to Berthold and Else Beitz.
• EXHIBITIONS Exhibited many times during the artist’s lifetime.
The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Berthold and Else Beitz Collection (directly from the artist).
Private collection Northern Germany (inherited from the above).
Dietmar Manke Collection, Schleswig-Holstein (since 2022, Ketterer Kunst).
EXHIBITION: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, April 8 - May 11, 1952, cat. no. 36.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Neue Werke - Gemälde, Tuschblätter, Graphik, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Cologne, May 1953, cat. no. 5 (with illu., with the label on the reverse).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff zum 70. Geburtstag. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Skulpturen, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, June 20 - July 25, 1954, cat. no. 56.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff zum 70. Geburtstag, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, September 20 - October 10, 1954, cat. no. 92.
Fränkische Galerie, Nuremberg, 1954, cat. no. 74.
Städtische Galerie, Duisburg, 1955, cat. no. 47.
LITERATURE: Will Grohmann, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Stuttgart 1956, pp. 233/306 (illustrated in black and white).
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Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction 533, Modern Art Day Sale and Hermann Gerlinger Collection, December 10, 2022, lot 512 (illustrated in color).
"I think most paintings are about procedures; I always wanted to show the being and the calm and quiet life of the things."
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1960, quoted from: Hans Kinkel, Das stille Leben der Dinge, in: Gunther Thiem (ed.), Schmidt-Rottluff. Retrospektive, Munich 1989, pp. 69-70
