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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Selbstporträt, 1951

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Selbstporträt, 1951

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Stillleben mit Margeritenstrauß, 1960–1969

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Stillleben mit Margeritenstrauß, 1960–1969

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Buchtausläufer nach Westen, 1960–1969

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Buchtausläufer nach Westen, 1960–1969

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Weiße Wicken, 1941–1944

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Weiße Wicken, 1941–1944

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Kieferwald im Frühling, 1920

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Kieferwald im Frühling, 1920

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Neujahrsgruß (Schriftblatt), 1922

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Neujahrsgruß (Schriftblatt), 1922

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Kopf, 1915

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Kopf, 1915

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Kopf eines liegenden Mannes, mit der linken..., 1925

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Kopf eines liegenden Mannes, mit der linken..., 1925

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Frau am Klavier, 1923

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Frau am Klavier, 1923

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Straße in Sonne, 1912

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Straße in Sonne, 1912

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Kopf mit Pfeife, 1918

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Kopf mit Pfeife, 1918

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Mann und Frau im Mondschein, 1917

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Mann und Frau im Mondschein, 1917

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Straßenszene, 1923

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Straßenszene, 1923

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Knabenkopf, 1907

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Knabenkopf, 1907

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Landscape near Sierksdorf on the Baltic , 1970–1971

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Landscape near Sierksdorf on the Baltic , 1970–1971

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Katzen, 1915

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Katzen, 1915

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The Road to Emmaus, (from Schmidt-Rottluff..., 1918

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The Road to Emmaus, (from Schmidt-Rottluff..., 1918

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Stilleben mit Lupine, 1969

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Stilleben mit Lupine, 1969

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Steilküste bei Jershöft/Ostsee, 1923

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Steilküste bei Jershöft/Ostsee, 1923

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Bewegte Herbstlandschaft, 1967

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Bewegte Herbstlandschaft, 1967

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Lebasee mit Revekol, 1940–1945

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Lebasee mit Revekol, 1940–1945

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Nach dem Fang, 1923

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Nach dem Fang, 1923

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Frau mit aufgelöstem Haar, 1913

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Frau mit aufgelöstem Haar, 1913

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Mädchen vor dem Spiegel, 1914

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Mädchen vor dem Spiegel, 1914

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