print
- Museum number
- 2004,0602.143
- Title
- Object: Frauenkopf (Woman's head)
- Description
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Head of a woman turned to the right, shading and highlights on face created with parallel lines, more solid areas of black for the hair, lips and shoulders. 1919
Woodcut printed in black on cream wove paper
- Production date
- 1916
- Dimensions
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Height: 171 millimetres (block)
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Height: 255 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 240 millimetres
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Width: 352 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Reproduced in the album "Genius", Munich, 1919. Printed by the artist, some impressions on yellow paper. The block was made of fur wood and was destroyed.
Text from 'Living with art: The Alexander Walker collection' (British Museum Press, 2020):
Schmidt-Rottluff was a founder member of Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German Expressionist painters and printmakers founded in Dresden in 1905. Other members included Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), Erich Heckel (1883–1970) and Emil Nolde (1867–1956). The group played an important role in reviving the making of woodcuts. The block for this print was cut in 1915, two years after Die Brücke disbanded. It was printed by W. Drugulin, Leipzig in 1919 for the first volume of the periodical 'Genius: Zeitschrift für werdende und alte Kunst' (Genius: Journal of Emerging and Traditional Art), which was published by Kurt Wolff Verlag in Leipzig. Walker purchased this impression the year after he saw an exhibition of Schmidt-Rottluff’s work at the Kirchner Museum in Davos, during a ski trip.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2004-2005 June-Jan, BM, Matisse to Freud: The Alexander Walker Bequest
2020 11-24 Dec, Banbridge, F.E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio, Living with art
2021 10 May-7 Jun, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Living with art
2021 24 Jul-2 Oct, Doncaster, Danum Gallery, Library and Museum, Living with art
2022 21 Jan-24 Apr, Bideford, The Burton, Living with art
- Acquisition date
- 2004
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by Alexander Walker from the William Weston Gallery, London on 21/10/99 for £675. Framed by Alexander Walker on 04/11/99 (label on back of original frame). Exhibited at the William Weston Gallery as no. 37 in "European and British Master Prints 1820-1980", catalogue no. 3, 1995, priced £675.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2004,0602.143
