print
- Museum number
- 1984,0609.7
- Title
- Object: Haus hinter Bäumen
- Description
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House behind trees. 1911
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1911
- Dimensions
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Height: 203 millimetres
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Width: 260 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from Frances Carey and Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', BM 1984, no. 97
This print of 1911 serves as a link between the woodcuts of 1909 and 1914 in Carey & Griffiths 1984. It shares with the 1909 print the concern for delicate hand-printing (it also has burnishing marks on the verso) and careful inking (the black areas have been only thinly inked so as to reveal the grain of the block). But it looks forward to later works in its new interest in a clearer definition of form by means of angular cutting and broad expanses of black. A related drawing in coloured chalks was formerly in the collection of Rosa Schapire.
Martha Rauert, to whom this impression was dedicated by the artist, was with her husband Paul one of Schmidt-Rottluff' s earliest and most important Hamburg patrons, and a passive member of the Brücke. Most of their collection was sold in Hamburg, at Hauswedell's, in June 1969 (cf. 1980,0126.115). The impression of this print sold as lot 8 in that sale, however, was not the same as that shown in Carey & Griffiths 1984, as it was signed on the left, not the right, and was undated. Frau Rauert had also been one of the first collectors of Nolde, and was one of the purchasers at his exhibition at the Commeter Gallery in 1907, an exhibition which had been warmly reviewed by Rosa Schapire.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1984/5 Sept.-Jan, BM, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', no. 97
1990/91 Nov-Jan, Liverpool, Tate Gallery, German Woodcuts and Carvings
- Acquisition date
- 1984
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1984,0609.7
