Stone relief.
Wietek 162. With remains of a formerly inscribed paper label on the underside. Ca. 9 x 5 x 5 cm.
[AR].
- Strongly stylized flat cut face that shows the influence of Mexican art. - Schmidt-Rottluff called the stones he found on the beach of Sierksdorf "Findlinge" (boulders) and made reliefs of some of them. - Most were made during the summers in the early 1950s.
LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 423, SHG no. 766 (with color illu.). Gerhard Wietek, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Werkverzeichnis der Plastik und des Kunsthandwerks, München 2001, catalogue raisonné no. 162 (with illu.). Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 126, SHG no. 288 (with color illu.).