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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Haus mit Pappeln 1913 Woodcut German Expressionism

1913

$7,692.31
£5,748.25
€6,500
CA$10,711.15
A$11,510.26
CHF 6,175.92
MX$135,583.85
NOK 77,655.38
SEK 70,937.69
DKK 49,550

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff 1884 Rottluff - 1976 Berlin Haus mit Pappeln, 1913 Woodcut on firm brownish paper Signed in pencil lower right Image: 23.5 x 24.7 cm Frame: 51 x 61 cm Published in the Porfolio "Die Schaffenden", 1st vol. 1920 (with blindstamp) LITERATURE: Rosa Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Graphisches Werk bis 1923, no. H 118. Authenticity is guaranteed in writing. The painter, print-maker and sculptor Karl Schmidt was born at Rottluff near Chemnitz in 1884. His father was a miller. In 1905 he enrolled to study architecture at Dresden Technical University. The year he met Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Fritz Bleyl there, he co-founded with them the group of artists known as 'Die Brücke'. Their first joint portfolio of prints appeared in 1906. He outdid his colleagues in insisting on pure primary colours and his Expressionist paintings were dominated by forceful handling of the medium to achieve intensity and brilliance. Until 1912 he often stayed for quite some time in the Dangastermoor near Varel in Oldenburg, where he found a wealth of motifs for his landscape paintings. After moving to Berlin in 1911, he addressed himself to problems of form, developing an increasingly reductive geometric formal language, a development that was interrupted by the outbreak of war. While serving on the Eastern Front, he did a cycle of religious woodcuts in which he tried to come to terms with the horrors of war. It is regarded as his graphic masterpiece. In 1918 he returned to Berlin. During the 1920s he reverted to the work rhythm of travelling to paint during the summers and working in his studio during the winters. Stays in Pomerania, at Lake Leba in Ticino and in the Taunus Mountains as well as a stint in Rome to study at the German Academy in the Villa Massimo (1930) inspired his mature still lifes and landscapes. In 1937 his work was declared degenerate at the notorious Munich exhibition of 'Degenerate Art'. By 1941 he was forbidden to paint and was expelled from the painters' guild. After the second world war he was appointed to a chair at the (West) Berlin Hochschule für bildende Künste. His late work links up, as far as motifs are concerned, with his Expressionist phase although his palette is by now more subtle and less intense. In 1956 this renewer of art, who had been an arch revolutionary in his youth, was awarded the highest (West) German distinction, the 'Pour le Mérite' order, and was honoured as a classic. The Brücke Museum, which he had endowed with a collection of his works, was inaugurated in 1967. Numerous retrospectives in the Federal Republic paid tribute to this artist, who, as art historians unanimously agree, was one of the most important German Expressionists.
  • Creation Year:
    1913
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 9.26 in (23.5 cm)Width: 9.73 in (24.7 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Eltville am Rhein, DE
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2910217476922

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