Picture "Tree and Haystacks at Lake Leba" (around 1940) (Unique piece) New

Picture "Tree and Haystacks at Lake Leba" (around 1940) (Unique piece) New
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unique piece | signed | chalk drawing over ink | framed | size 46 x 59 cm
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Picture "Tree and Haystacks at Lake Leba" (around 1940) (Unique piece)
Between 1932 and 1943, the painter Schmidt-Rottluff spent the summer and autumn months at Lake Leba. He loved this landscape more than anything. Here, he found the quiet motifs that continually inspired him to reinterpret them in new ways. Even during the years of persecution and ostracism, he was able to continue his travels to Lake Leba, though his artistic expression was severely restricted.
Schmidt-Rottluff's works from this period, particularly the present coloured chalk drawing "Tree and Haystacks at Lake Leba," reflect his profound connection to nature and an expressive visual style. In his works, he captures the untamed beauty of this landscape with bold lines and a vibrant colour palette.
Coloured chalk drawing over ink, around 1940, signed. Motif size/sheet size 26 x 40 cm. Size in frame 46 x 59 cm as shown.
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About Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
1884-1976
He loved the seclusion of nature, the landscapes of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, which became the place of creation and motif of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's works. Along with Fritz Bleyl and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, he was a co-founder of the artists' association "Die Brücke", which was founded in 1905. Around that time, he changed his surname by adding his native town of Rottluff.
When he moved to Berlin in 1911, he got inspired by the Futurist, Cubist and African styles of art, which later influenced his work. The artist suffered from the defamation of his art by the Nazi Party. In 1936 they banned him from exhibiting, which was followed five years later by a ban on painting. In a desperate state of mind, Schmidt-Rottluff returned to his hometown and accepted a professorship at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin in the late 1940s. Through his teaching position, he found interest in working on large-format watercolours, which later became characteristic of his work.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a type of modern art, that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which for the first time a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.