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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Contemporary Realism, Drawings and Works on Paper, Impressionist and Modern Art

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Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein

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Akte im Freien - Drei badende Frauen, 1913
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Blumenstillleben, 1963

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Blumenstillleben, 1963

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Bildnis Brust, 1918

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Bildnis Brust, 1918

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Christus flucht dem Feigenbaum

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Christus flucht dem Feigenbaum

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Altdresdner Häuser, 1908

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Altdresdner Häuser, 1908

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Stillleben mit Distel und Zeitung, 1940–1945

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Stillleben mit Distel und Zeitung, 1940–1945

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Stillleben mit Gefäßen, 1970–1979

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Stillleben mit Gefäßen, 1970–1979

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Stillleben mit Tannenzapfen, 1943

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Stillleben mit Tannenzapfen, 1943

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Frauenkopf, 1915

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Frauenkopf, 1915

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Christus (Kristus) unter den Frauen, 1919

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Christus (Kristus) unter den Frauen, 1919

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Russisches Dorf, 1918

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Russisches Dorf, 1918

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Landschaft an der Bucht, 1966

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Landschaft an der Bucht, 1966

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Seenlandschaft mit Tanne, 1960–1969

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Seenlandschaft mit Tanne, 1960–1969

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Dunkle Vasen vor Blau, 1962

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Dunkle Vasen vor Blau, 1962

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Heuschober vor dem Revekol am Lebasee, 1940

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Heuschober vor dem Revekol am Lebasee, 1940

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Frühlingsgarten, 1937

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Frühlingsgarten, 1937

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Wetterdisteln, 1967

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Wetterdisteln, 1967

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Wasserlilien, 1938

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Wasserlilien, 1938

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Russische Landschaft, 1919

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Russische Landschaft, 1919

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Wattenmeer, 1909

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Wattenmeer, 1909

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Die schwarze Schale, 1957

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Die schwarze Schale, 1957

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Sommerblumen mit Obstschale, 1930–1935

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Sommerblumen mit Obstschale, 1930–1935

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Stilleben und Orangen, 1928

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Stilleben und Orangen, 1928

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Watt bei Ebbe, 1912

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Watt bei Ebbe, 1912

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Vase mit Georginen, 1907

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Vase mit Georginen, 1907

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