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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WEIBLICHER KOPF, 1915

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WEIBLICHER KOPF, 1915

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KUSS IN LIEBE, 1918

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KUSS IN LIEBE, 1918

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FISCHER, 1923

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FISCHER, 1923

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VILLA MIT TURM, 1911

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VILLA MIT TURM, 1911

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AUS ROWE, 1921

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AUS ROWE, 1921

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KOPF F.V., 1919

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KOPF F.V., 1919

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MEMEL II, 1914

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MEMEL II, 1914

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FRAU IN DEN DUNEN, 1914

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FRAU IN DEN DUNEN, 1914

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MADCHEN VOR DEM SPIEGEL MED: AUF BUTTEN], 1914

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MADCHEN VOR DEM SPIEGEL MED: AUF BUTTEN], 1914

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MUTTER, 1916

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MUTTER, 1916

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MADCHENKOPF, 1918

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MADCHENKOPF, 1918

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DUNEN UND MOLE, 1917

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DUNEN UND MOLE, 1917

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GRUSS ZUM NEUJAHR, 1924

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GRUSS ZUM NEUJAHR, 1924

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CHRISTUS BEI MARIA UND MARTHA, 1919

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CHRISTUS BEI MARIA UND MARTHA, 1919

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KOPF, 1919

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KOPF, 1919

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BLAUE FRAU FICHTE, 1923

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BLAUE FRAU FICHTE, 1923

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SITZENDE FRAU MIT BLUTEN, 1913

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SITZENDE FRAU MIT BLUTEN, 1913

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SCHLAFENDE HETARE, 1914

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SCHLAFENDE HETARE, 1914

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AKTE IM ATELIER

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AKTE IM ATELIER

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TITELBLATT ZUR HOLZSCHNITTMAPPE [MED: AUF..., 1918

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TITELBLATT ZUR HOLZSCHNITTMAPPE [MED: AUF..., 1918

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LETZTER SCHNEE AUF DEM BALKON VON HANNA..., 1932

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LETZTER SCHNEE AUF DEM BALKON VON HANNA..., 1932

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STILLEBEN MIT FEDERN UND FLASCHEN, 1932

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STILLEBEN MIT FEDERN UND FLASCHEN, 1932

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BEWACHSENE BUCHT AN DER OSTKUSTE, 1959

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BEWACHSENE BUCHT AN DER OSTKUSTE, 1959

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Stilleben mit Krokustopf, 1953–1954

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Stilleben mit Krokustopf, 1953–1954

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