Melancholie (Melancholy)
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German, 1884 - 1976
1914; published 1919
Woodcut on laid paper
75
Impression: 15 3/8 × 19 1/8 in. (39.1 × 48.6 cm)
Sheet: 24 1/8 × 20 1/8 in. (61.3 × 51.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.953.4
Portfolio / Series Title
Zehn Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff (Ten Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff); Frau mit Schale (Woman with Bowl)
Publisher
J. B. Neumann, Berlin
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right: S. Rottluff; inscribed, on mat, lower left: 2446 / 15 Frau m. Schale
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012
ENGL 53, Twentieth Century British Fiction: 1900 to WWII, Brenda Silver, Spring 2013
FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
WGST 51.8, The Femme Fatale in Literature, Film, and Myth, Paul Carranza, Spring 2014
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Mary Coffey, Joy Kenseth, Winter 2019
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Gard, Andrew McCann, Winter 2019
German Club, Winter 2019
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020
GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020
GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Winter 2021
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann2, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Spring 2021
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2022
GERM 7.07, Babylon Berlin, Veronika Fuechtner, Spring 2022
Exhibition History
20th Century Masters from the Permanent Collection, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 3-March 5, 1978.
20th Century Works from the Dartmouth Collection, Professor Jordan, Modern Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 19-May 29, 1988.
A Space for Dialogue 86, Emblem, Figuring the Abstract in Social Commentary, Bay Lauris ByrneSim, Class of 2015, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 14-April 5, 2015.
An Introduction of the History of Art from the Fiffeenth Century to the Twentieth Century, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12-March 15, 1992.
Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 1973.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1994-May 8, 1995.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 7-26, 1997.
Durer and Related Works, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1971.
German Expressionist Prints, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 4-May 25, 1975.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 2, 2000-January 16, 2001.
Modernism: The Making of the 20th Century Vision, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 22-July 8, 1990.
Prints from the Hood Museum Collection, inaugural exhibition, Friends Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1, 1985-January 12, 1986.
Representations of the Body in Space from the Renaissance to the Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 3-March 15, 1998.
Teaching the History of Western Art 1500-Present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Jaruary 27-March 11, 2001.
The Voice of the Print, Visual Studies Department, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 4, 1989-Janaury 1, 1990.
Publication History
Bay Lauris ByrneSim, A Space for Dialogue 86, Emblem, Figuring the Abstract in Social Commentary, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2015, checklist no. 2.
Provenance
Charles D. Childs (art dealer), Boston; sold to present collection, 1953.
Catalogue Raisonne
R. Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs graphisches Werk bis 1923, Berlin, 1924, no. 139.
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