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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

1884
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1976
Photo: museum-wiesbaden.de

As a co-founder of the Dresden artists' association "Brücke" and an important representative of German Expressionism, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, born in Rottluff in 1884, was one of the most important artists, graphic artists and sculptors of Modern art. Following the "Brücke" guiding principle, Schmidt-Rottluff sought avant-garde ways of expressing a new style of art and life in the formal simplification, deliberate coarsening and exaggeration of color. His preferred motifs included people in motion and in nature, the nude, the circus, vaudeville, life in the big city and the untouched landscapes of the North and Baltic Seas.

While still at school in Chemnitz, Schmidt-Rottluff met Erich Heckel, who was one year his junior, and began studying architecture with him at the Technical University in Dresden in 1905. There, together with fellow students Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl, he founded the "Brücke" (until 1913) and began working as a freelance artist. Schmidt-Rottluff spent the summers in Dangast (1907-1910). In 1911, he moved to Berlin together with Kirchner and Heckel and took part in important exhibitions, such as the "Neue Secession" in Berlin (1910) and the 2nd exhibition of the "Blaue Reiter" in Munich (1912). Stays on the Baltic Sea (Fehmarn, Nidden and Hohwacht) and in the 1930s in Jershöft and in Italy, Paris and Ticino followed. During the Second World War, he was defamed by the National Socialists as a "degenerate" artist and banned from exhibiting and painting. In 1947, he was appointed professor at the Kunsthochschule in Berlin Charlottenburg and took part in the first documenta in Kassel in 1955.

In 1964, he initiated the founding of the Brücke Museum in Berlin-Dahlem and continued to acquire works for the collection until his death in 1976.

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Karl Schmidt Rottluff still life with wood sculpture 1949

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Still life with wood sculpture

1949
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff head

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Head

1919
19500
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff hair weaving

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Hair braiding

1920
28000
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff cow pasture

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Cow pasture

1917
22000
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff landscape with sun

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Landscape with sun

1916
30000
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Woman in the Dunes

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Woman in the dunes

1914
22000
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Disciple

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Younger

1918
15000
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EXPRESSIVE! Expressionist paintings of the first and second generation

Landscapes by Bargheer, Felixmüller, Heckel, Kirchner, Pechstein and Purrmann. Still lifes by Hofer, Kirchner, Nolde, Peiffer Watenphul, Purrmann and Schmidt-Rottluff. People by Eble, Kirchner and Rohlfs.

7.1.2025

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19.12.2025

Wichtrach/Bern

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Landscape in the Modern art

26.8.2023

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16.3.2024

Riehen/Basel

Expressionism

In particular Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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1.3.2024

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Music & Dance in Modern art

Dance is the strongest means of expression of the human soul.‍

31.3.2023

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12.8.2023

Riehen/Basel

Moments of encounter

"Brücke" and its models

10.12.2022

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18.3.2023

Riehen/Basel

Expressive Woodcuts

"Brücke Style"

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