Brücke über einen Bach. 1903.
Grisaille, brush with black India Ink, heightened with opaque white.
Lower left monogrammed and dated. On brownish wove paper. 23.2 x 26.5 cm (9.1 x 10.4 in).
[KT].
• Earliest known sheet from the series of the "Schwarzblätter", which marked the beginning of the artist's path.

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

PROVENANCE: Günther Weiske Collection, Chemnitz.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired in 2000: Bassenge, with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Bremen, June 16 - September 10, 1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, September 27 - December 3, 1989, with black-and-white illu., p, 12.
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Schmidt-Rottluff. Form, Farbe, Ausdruck, Buchheim Museum,
Bernried, September 29, 2018 - February 3, 2019, p. 126 (with illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Villa Grisebach, Berlin, auction on November 30, 1991, lot 202 (with illu.).
Bassenge, Berlin, auction on May 27, 2000, lot 6557 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, SHG no. 11 (with illu.).