Art (1900-1945) > Expressionism Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Biography
Runde Silberbrosche mit gesichtsähnlichem Ornament. 1910.
Silver sheet, chased.
Diameter: 6.2 cm (2.4 in).
[KT].
PROVENANCE: Elsa Delbanco Collection, Hamburg/London.
Gustav Delbanco, London.
Private collection Great Britain (inherited from the above).
Private collection Lower Saxony (acquired in 2019, June 27, 2019).
EXHIBITION: International exhibition of modern jewellery 1890-1961, Goldsmiths Hall, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961, no. 704b.
LITERATURE: Gerhard Wietek, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Plastik und Kunsthandwerk
Catalogue Raisonné, Munich 2001, no. 356 (illu.).
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Gerhard Wietek, Maler der Brücke. Farbige Kartengrüße an Rosa Schapire von Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Wiesbaden 1958, no. 6 (postcard).
Gerhard Wietek, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff in Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein, Neumünster 1984, p. 96.
Anne Ward, Der Ring im Wandel der Zeit, Erlangen 1987, p. 158 (illu.).
Gerd Presler, “Brücke” an Dr. Rosa Schapire, Mannheim 1990.
Gerhard Wietek, Schmidt-Rottluff, Oldenburger Jahre 1907-1912, Oldenburg 1995, pp. 205, 437, 592.
In good condition. Two fine short cracks in the material on the center line, one of which has a small soldered metal point. Silver sheet slightly tarnished in places due to oxidation.
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