Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

(German, 1884–1976)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a German painter and member of the Expressionist movement Die Brücke. His Self-Portrait with Monocle (1910) is a hallmark example of the vivid color, jagged shapes, and unrefined mark-making for which he is best known. Born Karl Schmidt on December 1, 1884 in Chemnitz, Germany, he enrolled at the Dresden Polytechnic University 1905, where he met fellow architecture students Erich Heckel, Fritz Bleyl, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Together with his peers he founded Die Brücke, a collective workshop for painting, sculpting, and printmaking. The artist added the name of his hometown, Rottluff, that same year. In 1906, he discontinued his architectural studies and devoted himself solely to his painting practice. Throughout the following decades, after the disbanding of Die Brücke in 1913, the artist spent his summers painting on the Baltic coast and teaching at the Prussian Academy in Berlin. In 1936, he was officially prohibited by the Nazi regime from exhibiting his work. In exile till 1947, he returned to Berlin where he lived out the rest of his life, dying at the age of 92 on August 10, 1976. Today, Schmidt-Rottluff’s works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Städel Musuem in Frankfurt am Main, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Albertina in Vienna, among others.

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Landschaft aus Sehlendorf, 1920

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Landschaft aus Sehlendorf, 1920

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Bei den Netzen, 1914

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Bei den Netzen, 1914

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Christus und Judas, 1918

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Christus und Judas, 1918

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Der Angler, 1923

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Der Angler, 1923

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Fischer im Boot, 1923

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Fischer im Boot, 1923

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Landschaft

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Landschaft

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Afrikanische Holzfigur und hängende Maske, 1965

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Afrikanische Holzfigur und hängende Maske, 1965

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Inhaltsverzeichnis für die Neumann-Mappe, 1919

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Inhaltsverzeichnis für die Neumann-Mappe, 1919

Sale Date: November 30, 1995

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Frau in den Künen, 1914

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Frau in den Künen, 1914

Sale Date: November 29, 1995

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Ostseeküste, 1920

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Ostseeküste, 1920

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Gekreuzigter, 1919

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Gekreuzigter, 1919

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Selbstbildnis, 1914

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Selbstbildnis, 1914

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Katzen, 1915

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Katzen, 1915

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Straße mit Pappeln, 1920

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Straße mit Pappeln, 1920

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Kritik, 1909

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Kritik, 1909

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Hof am See, 1963

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Hof am See, 1963

Sale Date: November 29, 1995

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Am Haff, 1947

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Am Haff, 1947

Sale Date: November 28, 1995

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Blick über die Bucht, 1960

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Blick über die Bucht, 1960

Sale Date: November 28, 1995

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Landschaft mit Bäumen, 1939

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Landschaft mit Bäumen, 1939

Sale Date: November 25, 1995

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Trauernde am Strand, 1914

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Trauernde am Strand, 1914

Sale Date: November 25, 1995

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Landschaft mit Sonne, 1916

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Landschaft mit Sonne, 1916

Sale Date: November 25, 1995

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Der Angler, 1923

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Der Angler, 1923

Sale Date: November 25, 1995

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Aus Rowe, 1921

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Aus Rowe, 1921

Sale Date: November 25, 1995

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Ostseestrand, 1914

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Ostseestrand, 1914

Sale Date: November 25, 1995

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