Pastel over ink brush. Signed in pencil lower right, verso probably date in pencil "39/25/2" as well as on protective cardboard adhesive note of the Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath GmbH Frankfurt/Main from 1992, there also titled.

27 x 40 cm. Framed & behind glass : 58 x 74 cm.

Power pole before cloudy sky. Addendum 10/29/21: The sheet is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation.

German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, most important representative of Expressionism. He studied in Dresden and is a co-founder of the artist group "Brücke" and took part in the Berlin New Secession and Free Secession, but also exhibited with the Blue Rider. In the 3rd Reich his art was classified as "degenerate" and shown in the exhibition of the same name in Munich.

Literature : Illustrated in Plaul 2013, p. 18.