Zwei Manschettenknöpfe. 1920s.
Hammered and pulvinated Silver sheet, cut, surface chiselled. Ornamental disc and stay button connected by loops of silver wire.
Wietek 500. Diameter of buttons, each ca. 2.8 x 2.9 cm (1.1 x 1.1 in). Total dimensions, each ca. 4 x 3 cm (1,5 x 1,1 in).
[AR].
• Rare pair of cuff links; only two other pairs by the artist with unknown wherreabouts are known.
• Presumably artist-worn
• From the artist's rarest work group on the auction market (source: artprice.com).

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Privately-owned.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg.

EXHIBITION: Schmidt-Rottluff: Das nachgelassene Werk seit den 20er Jahren. Malerei, Plastik, Kunsthandwerk, Brücke Museum, Berlin, August 20, 1977 - January 15, 1978, cat. no. 181.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Aquarelle, Farbstiftzeichnungen, Schmuck, Kunstverein Paderborn, 1982, cat. no. 41.
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).
Nur für ihre Frauen. Schmuck von Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde, Erich Heckel und Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), October 26, 2003 - January 11, 2004, cat. no. 45 (with illu.).
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. 408, SHG no. 731 (with illu.).
Gerhard Wietek, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Werkverzeichnis der Plastik und des Kunsthandwerks, München 2001, Nr. 500 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 109, SHG no. 246 (with illu.).

In good condition consistent of the age. Silver somewhat tarnished.