Article of Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl
Karl Schmidt was born in Rottluff, today a district of Chemnitz, Saxony, in 1884. He began to call himself Schmidt-Rottluff in 1905.
In 1905, the group of artists known as Die Brücke ("the bridge") was created by the architecture students Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl and Erich Heckel in Dresden. In November 1905, the first exhibition of Die Brücke opened in Leipzig. The group later dissolved in 1913. In 1937, 608 of Schmidt-Rottluff's paintings were seized from museums by the Nazis and several of them shown in exhibitions of "degenerate art" ("Entartete Kunst").
In 1947, Schmidt-Rottluff was appointed a professor at the University of Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg. He was a prolific printmaker, with 300 woodcuts, 105 lithographs, 70 etchings, and 78 commercial prints described in the Rosa Schapire Catalogue raisonné.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff died in Berlin in 1976.
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First-class painting from 1932!Model for a painting in the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, LudwigshafenGerman Expressionism - Member of Die BrückeDocumented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation