House with Poplars, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
House with Poplars
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

House with Poplars, 1913


Blatt
505 x 335 mm
Druckstock
238 x min. 204 mm
maximum width
247 mm
Physical Description
Woodcut on laid paper
Inventory Number
65998
Object Number
65998 D
Acquisition
Acquired in 1948 as a donation from the heirs of the Carl Hagemann estate
Status
Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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About the Work

For “House with Poplars”, Schmidt-Rottluff abandoned the rectangular format. Unlike Heckel and Kirchhner, who repeatedly integrated the irregular forms of found wooden blocks into their woodcut compositions, Schmidt-Rottluff usually designed the shapes of his printing blocks himself. Here the form narrows towards the top, reinforcing the pull of the path leading into the picture.

About the Acquisition

From 1900 onwards, the Frankfurt chemist and industrialist Carl Hagemann (1867‒1940) assembled one of the most important private collections of modern art. It included numerous paintings, drawings, watercolours and prints, especially by members of the artist group “Die Brücke”. After Carl Hagemann died in an accident during the Second World War, the then Städel director Ernst Holzinger arranged for Hagemann’s heirs to evacuate his collection with the museum’s collection. In gratitude, the family donated almost all of the works on paper to the Städel Museum in 1948. Further donations and permanent loans as well as purchases of paintings and watercolours from the Hagemann estate helped to compensate for the losses the museum had suffered in 1937 as part of the Nazi’s “Degenerate Art” campaign. Today, the Hagemann Collection forms the core of the Städel museum’s Expressionist collection.

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15.11.2024