Birken im Herbst am Bachlauf. Um 1908-1913.
Mixed media on canvas.
Signed in lower left. 100 x 70.1 cm (39.3 x 27.5 in).

• Atmospherically dense and emotional landscape impression
• From the collection of Fritz and Käthe Pringsheim.

With a written expertise issued by Dr. Hendrikje Warmt, Berlin, from September 2019. This work will be included into the Karl Hagemeister Archive and the catalog raisonné of watercolors, pastels and drawings.

PROVENANCE: Julius and Margarethe Rosenheim, Berlin (with the collector's name on verso).
Fritz and Käthe Pringsheim (from at least 1921 to at least 1935, probably at least until 1939; obtained from aforementioned).
Private colelction Oxford (1970s).
Gemäldekabinett Unger, Munich (1988).
Company collection Nordwest-Medien GmbH & Co. KG, Oldenburg (acquired from aforementioned in 1988).
The work is ofered in in amicable agreement with the heirs after Fritz and Käthe Pringsheim on basis of a fair and just solution.

EXHIBITION: Sales exhibition Max Liebermann, Karl Hagemeister, Gemäldekabinett Unger, München 1988, ex. cat. p. 49.

LITERATURE: Manfred Sonneborn, Karl Friedrich Hagemeister. Gemälde und Zeichnungen eines märkischen Malers. Bestandsaufnahme der Werke in Privatbesitz, vol. 1, Berlin 2010, no. P-08-09.
Leo Spik, auction 543, December 10 - 12, 1987, lot 100 with illu on p. 41.
"When I go out into nature, and even if it is a spot I know very well, I can't just sit down and start to paint. I always need a little while to soak up the surroundings and to take hold of the atmosphere. Once I have an idea of its basic tone, I can render it as the predominant color chord onto the canvas. And this grounding remains dominant and provides the foundation for the picture."
Karl Hagemeister, in: Hendrikje Warmt, Hagemeister, Berlin 2016, p. 29.