Artist
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff 1884 – 1976
About the work
This woodcut with its characteristic, highly simplified shape is marked by a great emotionality, portraying as it does a tender, loving embrace. The two heads are large expanses of white shining bright against the black background. The composition of the faces is limited to angular, U-shaped noses whose sides simply bend over at their tops to form eyes. The lovers’ hair is rendered in an equally economical fashion, in thin white parallel lines for the woman’s long hair, and in zigzag lines on the forehead for the male head. The thin white outline around both heads makes the man’s neck appear plinth-like. The heads fuse together in their gentle caress in a monument to, or symbol of, love.
Year
1920
Material / Technique
Woodcut on paper
Dimensions of the object
63,9 x 49,1 cm
Signature
signiert unten rechts: SRottluff
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Inventory no.
86-20
Access
Acquired from a private collection in 1986
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Photo
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/László Tóth
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Status
Not on display
Exhibitions
- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Holzschnitte von 1909-1920, Städtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz 08.11.1994 – 12.03.1995
- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz 12.04.2003 – 24.08.2003
- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Malerei und Graphik aus sieben Jahrzehnten. Ausstellung zum 90. Geburtstag, Städtische Kunstsammlung Karl-Marx-Stadt, Museum am Theaterplatz 01.12.1974 – 23.02.1975
Catalog raisonné
Schapire H 264
Year
1920
Material / Technique
Woodcut on paper
Dimensions of the object
63,9 x 49,1 cm
Signature
signiert unten rechts: SRottluff
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Inventory no.
86-20
Access
Acquired from a private collection in 1986
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Photo
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/László Tóth
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Status
Not on display
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