Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (December 1, 1884 - August 10, 1976) was a German expressionist painter.
Biography
Karl Schmidt was born in Rottluff near Chemnitz (Saxonia) and began to call himself Schmidt-Rottluff in 1905.On 7 June, 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 the Brücke followed in Leipzig. In 1913 the group dissolved. In 1938, 608 of his 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 died in Berlin in 1976.
See also
- Letter from Adolf Ziegler about the Nazi seizure of work
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