Fischerboote. 1919.
Pencil drawing.
Signed and dated in lower left. On thin wove paper. 33 x 42 cm (12.9 x 16.5 in), size of sheet. [CH].

• The year the work was made, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff married his long-time partner, the photographer Emy Frisch, they spent the summer months in the quaint town of Hohwacht on the Baltic Sea.
• Hohwacht became a retreat for Schmidt-Rottluff and other artists like Heinrich Vogeler and Bernhard Hoetger, as well as for Rosa Schapire, author of Schmidt-Rottluff's catalogue raisonné of prints.
• Romantic coastal landscapes and works characterized by depictions of man and nature in balance were made in the summers after the war.
• The war had changed the artist, who would develop an increased sensitivity.
• Schmidt-Rottluff rendered the vast coastal landscape in a composition of clear forms, lines and hatchures.

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

PROVENANCE: 122000090 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: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 388, SHG no. 670 (fig.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 88, SHG no. 181 (fig.).

Fine overall impression. Minimally discolored and with tiny foxmarks. With a smoothed folding in center. With skinned spots from mounting on the corners# reverse, slightly showing through to recto, with a few tiny pinholes and isolated crimped spots. [JS]