Keitelkähne (Kurenkähne im Hafen). 1909.
Pen and India ink drawing.
Lower right signd and dated. On brownish cardboard. 36.8 x 42.6 cm (14.4 x 16.7 in), the full sheet.
The work is registered in the Hermann Gerlinger Collection with the number SHG 850a. [AM].
• From the sought-after "Brücke" period.
• Dynamic pen and ink drawing, created during Pechstein's stay in Nida in 1909.
• Nida on the Curonian Spit became the artist's new "painter's paradise" as of 1909.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Wenzel, Frankfurt am Main (1986-1988).
Private collection Düsseldorf (from 1990).
Private collection Northern Germany.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 2007, with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2007-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022.

LITERATURE: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, auction 259, May 1985, lot 1240.
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, March 30, 2007, lot 336.

In good condition consistent of teh age. Margins minimally rubbed and soiled all the way around. Upper right corner with a tiny pinhole, probably from the making, here also with tiny a tear. Both left corners with a slight crease.