Sommerblumen. 1909.
Watercolor and India ink.
Lower right signed and dated. Verso inscribed "Sommerblumen“. On delicate J. Whatman paper (with truncated watermark). 44 x 56.1 cm (17.3 x 22 in), size of sheet.
[AM].
• Characterful early work in brilliant colors.
• From the modern art collection of Dr. Johannes Schürer.
• Expressive still life from 1909, a year of great importance for the development of Schmidt-Rottluff's watercolor technique.

The watercolor is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Collection Dr. Johannes Schürer, Mülheim an der Ruhr (presumably since the 1930s, probably acquired from Commeter in 1933).
Ever since family-owned.

LITERATURE: Galerie Commeter Hamburg, Freiwillige Versteigerung einer Hamburgischen Sammlung nebst Beiträgen: Original Handzeichnungen, Radierungen, Lithographien, Holzschnitte von Künstlern des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (…), auction on May 18 and 19, 1933 (catalog no. 58), lot 366.