OSKAR SCHLEMMER | Rote Mitte I (Red Centre I)

Estate of the Artist
Tut Schlemmer, Stuttgart (the artist's widow; by descent from the above)
Karl Ströher, Darmstadt (acquired in 1951)
Dr. Erika Pohl-Ströher, Switzerland (by descent from the above in 1977)
Thence by descent to the present owner in 2016

Munich, Haus der Kunst; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunstsammlungen & Berlin, Amt für Kunst des Magistrats von Groß-Berlin Schloss Charlottenburg, Die Maler des Bauhaus, 1950, no. 255
Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Kunst unserer Zeit, Privatsammlung Karl Ströher, 1954, no. 163
Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Kunst unserer Zeit, Sammlung Karl Ströher, 1955, no. 184
Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Die Sammlung Karl Ströher, 2, 1965-66, no. 124, illustrated in the catalogue
Munich, Galerie Verein, Neue Pinakothek & Haus der Kunst; Hamburg, Kunstverein & Berlin, Nationalgalerie and Kunstverein, Sammlung Karl Ströher, 1968, no. 122, illustrated in the catalogue

Hans Hildebrandt, Oskar Schlemmer, Munich, 1952, no. 663
Karin von Maur, Oskar Schlemmer, Œuvrekatalog der Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle und Plastiken, Munich, 1979, no. A446, illustrated p. 312
Erika Pohl, Ursula Ströher & Gerhard Pohl (ed.), Karl Ströher, Sammler und Sammlung, Stuttgart, 1982, no. 517, illustrated p. 324

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and hinged to the mount in two places along the upper edge. The left and right edges are slightly unevenly cut. The sheet is lightly time-stained. There is a small repaired loss to the lower right corner, as well as to the upper edge, next to the upper left corner along the upper edge, and a small repaired tear measuring approx. 1cm. to the centre lower edge. There is a flattened horizontal crease to the centre of the right edge (approximately 3cm long). There are a few minor pigment losses to the central figure's hair. This work is in overall good condition.
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