Karl Schmidt-Rottluff 1884-1976
Dr Rosa Schapire, 1919
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Biography of Karl SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (December 1, 1884 - August 10, 1976) was a German expression!ist painter and printmaker, and a member of Die Brücke.
Karl Schmidt was born in Rottluff, today a district of Chemnitz, (Saxony), and began to call himself Schmidt-Rottluff in 1905.
On 7 June 1905, the group of artists known as Die Brücke ("the bridge") was created by the architecture students Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl and Erich Heckel in Dresden. In November 1905 the first exhibition of Die Brücke followed in Leipzig. The group dissolved in 1913.
In 1937, 608 of his paintings were seized from museums by the Nazis and several of them shown in exhibitions of "degenerate art" ("Entartete Kunst"). In 1947, Schmidt-Rottluff was appointed a professor at the University of Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
He was a prolific printmaker, with 300 woodcuts, 105 lithographs, 70 etchings, and 78 commercial prints described in the Rosa Schapire Catalogue raisonné.
He died in Berlin in 1976.
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Firs next to the water
Before the spring
Rootless trees
Boats of fishermen in the Sea Bático
Bochorro in the lake
Autumnal road
It marries destroyed
You marry with peasants
You marry in the night
Overflow of the dike
Dunes and gap
The drawbridge
In the bend of the village
Factory
Factory demolished