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BIRTH OF THE MODERN: THE ARNOLD AND JOAN SALTZMAN COLLECTION
KARL SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF (1884-1976)
Hartzlandschaft
Details
KARL SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF (1884-1976)
Hartzlandschaft
signed 'S. Rottluff' (lower left); signed again and titled 'Schmidt-Rottluff "Hartzlandschaft"' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
41 x 48 7⁄8 in. (104 x 124 cm.)
Painted circa 1918
Hartzlandschaft
signed 'S. Rottluff' (lower left); signed again and titled 'Schmidt-Rottluff "Hartzlandschaft"' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
41 x 48 7⁄8 in. (104 x 124 cm.)
Painted circa 1918
Provenance
Hamburger Kunsthalle (by 1924; inv. no. 2285).
Confiscated from the above as 'degenerate art' by the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin (4 July 1937; EK no. 16106).
Transported and stored at Schloß Schönhausen.
Buch-und Kunsthandlung Karl Buchholz, Berlin (acquired from the above, 7 March 1941).
Hans Ranft, Oslo (acquired from the above, 1941).
Acquired from the above by the late owners, January 1968.
Confiscated from the above as 'degenerate art' by the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin (4 July 1937; EK no. 16106).
Transported and stored at Schloß Schönhausen.
Buch-und Kunsthandlung Karl Buchholz, Berlin (acquired from the above, 7 March 1941).
Hans Ranft, Oslo (acquired from the above, 1941).
Acquired from the above by the late owners, January 1968.
Literature
Kunsthalle zu Hamburg Katalog der Neueren Meister, Zweite Auflage, Hamburg, 1926, p. 210, no. 2285 (illustrated, p. 419).
W. Grohmann, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Stuttgart, 1956, p. 294 (dated 1923).
F. Roh, "Entartete" Kunst: Kunstbarbarei im Dritten Reich, Hanover, 1962, p. 189.
S. Barron, "Entartete Kunst": Das Schicksalder Avant garde im Nazi-Deutschland, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991, pp. 60 and 343 (illustrated insitu in Hamburger Kunsthalle, p. 60).
C. Zuschlag, "Entartete Kunst": Ausstellungsstrategien im Nazi-Deutschland, Worms am Rhein, 1995, p. 195.
A. Tiedemann, Die entartete Moderne und ihr amerikanischer Markt. Karl Buchholz und Curt Valentin als Händler verfemter Kunst, Berlin, 2013, p. 400.
W. Grohmann, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Stuttgart, 1956, p. 294 (dated 1923).
F. Roh, "Entartete" Kunst: Kunstbarbarei im Dritten Reich, Hanover, 1962, p. 189.
S. Barron, "Entartete Kunst": Das Schicksalder Avant garde im Nazi-Deutschland, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991, pp. 60 and 343 (illustrated insitu in Hamburger Kunsthalle, p. 60).
C. Zuschlag, "Entartete Kunst": Ausstellungsstrategien im Nazi-Deutschland, Worms am Rhein, 1995, p. 195.
A. Tiedemann, Die entartete Moderne und ihr amerikanischer Markt. Karl Buchholz und Curt Valentin als Händler verfemter Kunst, Berlin, 2013, p. 400.
Exhibited
Munich, Hofgarten-Arkaden, Entartete Kunst, July-November 1937.
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, German Expressionist: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Sculpture, November 1972-February 1973, p. 47, no. 63 (illustrated in color, p. 23; dated 1923).
Bari, Castello Svevo, Da Kandinsky à Dix, Dipinti dell'Espressionismo Tedesco, May-June 1989, p. 134, no. 52 (illustrated in color, p. 135).
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, From Kandinsky to Dix. Paintings of the German Expressionists, November-December 1989, p. 202 (illustrated in color, p. 203).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery Museum of Art, German Expressionist Paintings from the Saltzman Family Collection, November 2001-March 2002.
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, German Expressionist: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Sculpture, November 1972-February 1973, p. 47, no. 63 (illustrated in color, p. 23; dated 1923).
Bari, Castello Svevo, Da Kandinsky à Dix, Dipinti dell'Espressionismo Tedesco, May-June 1989, p. 134, no. 52 (illustrated in color, p. 135).
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, From Kandinsky to Dix. Paintings of the German Expressionists, November-December 1989, p. 202 (illustrated in color, p. 203).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery Museum of Art, German Expressionist Paintings from the Saltzman Family Collection, November 2001-March 2002.
Further Details
This work is registered in the archives of the Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung, Berlin.
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