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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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Facts about Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

   Karl Schmidt-Rottluff  Born:  1884 - Rottluff, Chemnitz, Germany
Died:   1976 - Berlin, Germany
Known for:  Expressionist painting, woodcuts, linocuts, intaglio, teaching

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. 

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