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Woodcut

1911 (made)
Artist/Maker
Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl (designer)

Membership card. Impressions from three blocks, in the centre the text and on each side a female nude, printed in orange toned card and folded.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Woodcuts
Object type
Woodcut
Materials and techniques
Woodcuts printed in orange toned card
Card
Wood-Cutting
Brief description
Print, membership card for 'Die Brücke'. Impressions from 3 blocks with an illustration of a female nude. Woodcut by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1911.
Physical description
Membership card. Impressions from three blocks, in the centre the text and on each side a female nude, printed in orange toned card and folded.
Dimensions
  • Height: 39.8cm
  • Width: 28.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Brücke Passives Mitgleid 1911' (Lettered)
  • 'Dr. R. Schapire' (Inscribed in ink)
Gallery label
The avant-garde artistic group Die Brücke embraced woodcut and used it to spread their vision cheaply and quickly in posters, invitations and membership cards. To make this print, Schmidt-Rottluff excavated large areas of wood from the block, leaving tiny pieces to appear as flecks in the resulting impression. These suggest background and figural form, and deliberately show the material from which the print was made.(August 2019)
Credit line
Given by Mr Gustav Delbanco
Object history
E.806-885-1963, under Prints and Drawings in this list, were formerly in the collection of Dr. Rosa Schapire, and of these the proofs of woodcuts made prior to 1924 were part of the material for her catalogue of Schmidt-Rottluff's graphic work. The Victoria and Albert Museum Library also has a collection of examples of the artist's typographical work, bequeathed by Dr. Schapire in 1955.
Subject depicted
Female Nude
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
  • Schapire, Rosa. Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs Graphisches Werk bis 1923. Berlin: Euphorion Verlag, 1924.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.819-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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