Die Katze (vor Futterschüssel). 1913.
India Ink and brush.
Lower right signed. On off-white wove paper. 49.5 x 59.5 cm (19.4 x 23.4 in), size of sheet.
[KT].
• Cats are a rare motif in the artist's œuvre.
• One from a series of four India ink drawings.

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

PROVENANCE: Private collection France (up to 1982).
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired in 1982: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).
Schmidt-Rottluff. Form, Farbe, Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, September 29, 2018 - February 3, 2019, p. 185 (with illu.).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, SHG no. 332 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, SHG no. 110 (with illu.).

Good overall impression. With two rebacked folding damages. With restored paper breakage. Slightly soiled.