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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Am Gebüsch, 1914

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Am Gebüsch, 1914

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Bei den Netzen, 1914

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Bei den Netzen, 1914

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Frauenkopf, 1912

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Frauenkopf, 1912

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Liegender weiblicher Akt, 1946

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Liegender weiblicher Akt, 1946

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Heimkehr der Fischer II, pl.1 (from Fischer), 1923

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Heimkehr der Fischer II, pl.1 (from Fischer), 1923

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Russische Madonna, 1921

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Russische Madonna, 1921

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Mädchenkopf, 1920

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Mädchenkopf, 1920

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Memel I, 1914

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Memel I, 1914

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Frühling im Garten

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Frühling im Garten

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Akte, 1913

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Akte, 1913

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Drei am Tisch (from Zehn Holzschnitte von..., 1914

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Drei am Tisch (from Zehn Holzschnitte von..., 1914

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Sitzendes Mädchen, 1911

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Sitzendes Mädchen, 1911

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Heimkehr der Fischer, 1923

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Heimkehr der Fischer, 1923

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Arbeiterkopf (from Arno Holz zum 60...., 1922

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Arbeiterkopf (from Arno Holz zum 60...., 1922

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Gespräch vom Tod, 1920

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Gespräch vom Tod, 1920

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Russischer Wald (from Die Schaffenden), 1918

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Russischer Wald (from Die Schaffenden), 1918

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Frau mit verschränkten Armen, 1913

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Frau mit verschränkten Armen, 1913

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Berliner Straße in Dresden, 1909

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Berliner Straße in Dresden, 1909

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Altdresdner Häuser, 1908

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Altdresdner Häuser, 1908

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Weiden an der Landstrasse, 1959

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Weiden an der Landstrasse, 1959

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Blumenstilleben, 1940–1949

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Blumenstilleben, 1940–1949

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Häuser und Mond, 1919

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Häuser und Mond, 1919

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Mädchen aus Kowno (from Zehn Holzschnitte..., 1918

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Mädchen aus Kowno (from Zehn Holzschnitte..., 1918

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Wattenmeer, 1909

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Wattenmeer, 1909

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