Häuser im Tessin. 1953.
Watercolor on paper.
Signed in lower right and inscribed with a barely legible work number "5382[?]". On firm paper (with barely legible name embossing). 45 x 66 cm (17.7 x 25.9 in), the full sheet. [JS].

• Summery landscape impression renderd with aplomb.
• Fascinating exampe of Schmidt-Rottluff's masterly combination of radiant colors and formative black contours.
• Watercolors are of key importance in Schmidt-Rottluff's creation: They dominated his œuvre from the early days with the "Brücke" up until his last creative period in the 1970s.
• Between 1949 and 1953 Schmidt-Rottluff regularly visited Ticino: Schmidt-Rottluff's watercolors attained a spiritual, mystical character there.

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

PROVENANCE: Private collection Northern Germany (acquired around 1960, ever since family-owned).