Gärtnerhaus. 1921.
Etching.
Schapire R 54. Signed and inscribed with the work number "2110". On firm wove paper. 39.3 x 32.3 cm (15.4 x 12.7 in). Sheet: 59,3 x 44,3 cm (23,5 x 17,4 in).
Printed by Fritz Voigt, Berlin. [CH].

• A fine burred impression with a clearly defined platemark and lively plate tone.
• Schmidt-Rottluff probably found the motif in Jershöft, a small town on the Baltic Sea in Pomerania, which the artist made his summer residence between 1920 and 1931.
• This is the only copy of this etching offered on the international auction market in the last 30 years (source: artprice).

The work is registered in the Hermann Gerlinger Collection as SHG 204a.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).

LITERATURE: Rosa Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Graphisches Werk bis 1923, Berlin 1924, no. R 54 (illu., plate vol.).

In good condition. Some slight creases in the lower corners and parallel to the upper edge. Very few, faint traces of rubbing in the broad margin.