Woodcut. Signed and inscribed with the work number "188". On wove paper. 50.3 x 38.7 cm. Sheet: 71 x 53,3 cm.
The work is registered in the Hermann Gerlinger Collection with the number SHG 150a. [AR].
- Portrait of the expressionist writer Alfred Brust. - Extremely rare. - Well-known provenance alongside Hermann Gerlinger: Wilhelm Niemeyer published the important expressionist magazine "Kündung" together with Rosa Schapire, he was a passive member of "Brücke" and a former Schmidt-Rottluff collector.
LITERATURE: Rosa Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Graphisches Werk bis 1923, Berlin 1924, no. H 210 (illu. in black and white., plate vol.). - - Bassenge, Berlin, Moderne Kunst Teil I, auction 102, November 30, 2013, lot 8426.