It promises to be exciting when Ketterer auctions off the second tranche of the Hermann Gerlinger collection on December 9th and 10th, along with some major works from other origins.

Several million surcharges seem possible in the evening auction.

It begins with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's oil painting "Morgen an der Elbe", painted in 1905, the year the Brücke community was founded, by the artist who sparked Gerlinger's passion for collecting while he was still a student.

After negotiations with several museums about the permanent whereabouts of the works failed, Gerlinger had his Brücke collection of around a thousand objects, which he had assembled over the course of seventy years, auctioned off for charitable purposes.

The first tranche brought in six million euros.

Gerlinger only gave his Nolde collection to the artist's museum in Seebüll.

After Schmidt-Rottluff's picture of the Elbe, which is estimated at 150,000 to 200,000 euros, Robert Ketterer will call up a further 16 works from the Würzburg collector's collection throughout the evening, including another Schmidt-Rottluff: "Rote Düne" with two female nudes from 1913 ( estimate 800,000 to 1.2 million euros).

One of the few surviving sculptures by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is likely to arouse particular interest, a colored “Squatting Woman” from 1910 (700,000/900,000).

The sculpture appears in a drawing by the artist alongside a nude in front of a mirror (15,000/20,000).

The “Fehmarn Coast with Lighthouse”, painted in the warmest colors in 1913 (700,000/900,000) and above all the top lot, which is estimated at two to three million euros and painted on both sides, also comes from Kirchner:

The "Blue Girl in the Sun" from 1910 shows the model Fränzi with blue skin, a white shirt and a red bow, on the reverse Dodo smiles as a "yellow-green semi-nude" from a later period.

Another rarity among the sculptures is Erich Heckel's "Standing" carved in 1920 (600,000/ 800,000).

Beyond the Gerlinger Collection

Change of scene: the same time in Vienna, where an expressionism of its own character prevailed.

It was one of the areas of interest of Serge Sabarsky, the New York jack-of-all-trades, dealer and collector.

He, later his wife Vally's foundation, owned three works by Egon Schiele that are now on offer, including the watercolor "Sleeping" from 1912 (250,000/350,000).

In Switzerland, the paper manufacturer Oscar Miller put on an important collection of art of his time.

As one of his favorites, Ferdinand Hodler provided the “Kastanienallee bei Biberist” with a personal dedication in 1898 (1.4/1.8 million).

Lovis Corinth's "Lesende" on a divan from 1911, a declaration of love to his wife Charlotte, comes up for auction after an agreement was reached with the heirs of the Jewish couple Emil and Sophie Kaim, whose collection was confiscated by the National Socialists in 1940.

Emil Nolde’s “Sea” (800,000/1.2 million) painted on the island of Sylt shows elemental, foaming waves.

"Whereabouts unknown" applied to Max Beckmann's rustic "Lumberjacks in the Forest" until the picture was delivered from private ownership (600,000/800,000).

Forest is also a main motif on Baselitz' large-format "Hofteich" (700,000/900,000).

Among other things, Günther Uecker is present with the "Fall of the artistic genius (for Joseph Beuys)": He created it in 1986 for the exhibition "Beuys in honor" in Munich's Lenbachhaus (450,000/550,000).

Unlike most of Keith Haring's "Subway Drawings", two stick figures with clock heads are still in their original frames from the New York subway (300,000/400,000).

Like Haring, David Wojnarowicz was part of the East Village subculture scene in the 1980s;

two of his works are available (from 100,000/150,000).

For more American art of the decade, Andy Warhol's complete Goethe series of four (300,000/400,000) and Richard Serra's steely two-parter Corner Pop No.

6 (Leena and Tuula)” (600,000/800,000) comes into play.

The following "Day Sale" for the classic modern also begins with lots of Gerlingers.

In an interview commissioned by the auction house, he says to Günther Jauch, he never collected under the aspect of possible increase in value, but in the sense of a certain art-historical completeness.

So a lot of drawings came together - very funny Kirchner's sheet of "Heckel mit Blaue Hut" as well as in Adam's costume (40,000/60,000) - and documentation material such as membership cards, posters or leaflets.

The catalog for the Brücke exhibition at Gurlitt in Berlin from 1912 is estimated at 15,000 to 20,000 euros.

Graphics also enriched Gerlinger's collection, such as the seven annual portfolios of the bridge (from 10,000/15,000 to 100,000/150,000) and even jewelry that Schmidt-Rottluff made from amber and silver.

In addition, almost 100 works from the 19th century will go under the hammer on the second day, mostly paintings by the Munich School with Carl Spitzweg at the helm.

60,000 to 80,000 euros are expected for his flower-plucking "Monk (She loves me from the heart, a little . . .)".