Woodcut and the respective woodblock (spruce). The woodcut is signed and bears the work number. The woodblock is also inscribed with the work number on the reverse. The woodcut is executed on Japanese paper. 50 x 30.9 cm. Sheet: 56 x 46 cm.
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• The majority of the woodblocks are held by the Brücke-Museum in Berlin.
• Important historical document illustrating the creative process
• Copies of the woodcut are extremely rare on the international art market (source: artprice.com).
LITERATURE: Rosa Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Graphisches Werk bis 1923, Berlin 1924, cat. rais. no. 271 (illustrated in b/w, plate volume). - - Magdalena M. Moeller (ed.), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Die Holzstöcke, Berlin 2011 (general information on Schmidt-Rottluff's woodblocks).