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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884 - 1976) was active/lived in Germany.  Karl Schmidt Rottluff is known for Expressionist painting, woodcuts, linocuts, intaglio, teaching.

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Born in 1884 with the name of Karl Schmidt in Rottluff, he added in 1905 the name of Rottluff to his sir name for his birthplace of Rottluff, a district in the town of Chemnitz in Saxony, Germany.  That same year, he was part of a group of German architecture students who, in Dresden, first exhibited together with the name Die Brucke* (The Bridge), an organization that existed until 1913 and whose goal was to "bridge" their modernist, avant-garde* style with the prevalent Romanticism* and other traditional movements of the past.  As a group focused on harsh social realities and inner emotional responses, it had a major impact on paving the way to acceptance of 20th Century modernist art movements. 

Founding members in addition to Schmidt-Rottluff were Fritz Bleyl (1880-1966), Erich Heckel (1883-1970) and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938).  Schmidt-Rottluff, who had been much inspired by the expressive power of art he saw at the Ethnographic Museum in Dresden   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9236 characters.]  Artist bio

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