Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Karl Schmidt until 1905; 1 December 1884 – 10 August 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker; he was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke.

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Nationality

German

Gender

Male

Roles

Artist, Painter, Sculptor

Names

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl Schmidt, Karl Schmidt- Rottluff, Karl S. Rottluff, Karl Schmidt-Rotluff, Schmidt-Rottluff, K. Schmidt-Rottluff

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German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse

Repicturing the Past/Picturing the Present

Artists & Prints: Part 3

Artists & Prints: Masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art, Part 2

Painting & Sculpture II

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Young Roman (Römischer Jüngling) (c. 1908)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff The Sound (Das Wattenmeer) 1909

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Portrait of H. (Bildnis H.) from the portfolio Brücke 1909 (1909)

Various Artists, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel, Max Pechstein KG Brücke 1910

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff House in the Park (Haus im Park) (plate, folio 9 verso) KG Brücke 1910

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Mower (Schnitter) (plate, folio 11 verso) from KG Brücke 1910

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Portrait of S. (Bildnis S.) (1911)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Pharisees 1912

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Houses at Night 1912

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Boats on the Sea (Boote auf See) (1913), published 1914

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff In the Bushes (Am Gebüsch) (1914)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff At the Nets (Bei den Netzen) from the portfolio Ten Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff (Zehn Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff) (1914), published 1919

Georg Tappert, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Heinrich Richter-Berlin, Georg Tappert, Cesar Klein Die Aktion, vol. 4, no. 17 1914

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Die Aktion, vol. 4, no. 34/35 August 29, 1914

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Die Aktion, vol. 4, no. 38/39 September 26, 1914

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Girl before a Mirror (Mädchen vor dem Spiegel) 1914, published 1919

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Cats (Katzen) from the portfolio Ten Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff (Zehn Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff) (1915), published 1919

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Die Aktion, vol. 5, no. 13 March 20, 1915

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Mother (Mutter) from the portfolio Ten Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff (Zehn Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff) (1916), published 1919

Karl Jacob Hirsch, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Die Aktion, vol. 6, no. 9/10 March 4, 1916

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Die Aktion, vol. 6, no. 29/30 July 22, 1916

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff The Three Magi (Die heiligen drei Könige) from the portfolio Ten Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff (Zehn Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff) (1917, published 1919)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Dunes and Pier (Dünen und Mole) (1917), published 1923

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Girl with Braids (Mädchen mit Zöpfen) (plate, loose leaf) from the periodical Das Kunstblatt, vol. 2, no. 2 (Feb 1918) 1918 (executed 1917)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Couple (Menschenpaar) (plate, preceding p. 33) from the periodical Das Kunstblatt, vol. 2, no. 2 (Feb 1918) 1918 (executed 1917)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Emmaus (1918)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Christ and the Adulteress (Kristus und die Ehebrecherin) from the portfolio 9 Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff (9 Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff) (1918)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (Petri Fischzug) from the portfolio 9 Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff (9 Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff) 1918

Richard Bampi, A. Krapp, Wilhelm Schuler, Conrad Felixmüller, Hans Richter, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ottheinrich Strohmeyer Die Aktion, vol. 8, no. 3/4 January 26, 1918

Stanislaw Kubicki, A. Krapp, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Freundlich Die Aktion, vol. 8, no. 25/26 June 29, 1918

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Wilhelm Schuler, Ines Wetzel, Walter O. Grimm, Arthur Goetz, Bruno Beye, Wladislav Skotarek, Josef Capek, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Julius Kaufmann, Erich Goldbaum Die Aktion, vol. 8, no. 39/40 October 5, 1918

Ines Wetzel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Georg Tappert Die Aktion, vol. 8, no. 41/42 October 19, 1918

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Saint Francis (Der heilige Franziskus) (1919)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Russian Landscape with Sun (Russische Landschaft mit Sonne) (1919)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Die Aktion, vol. 9, no. 1 January 4, 1919

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Woman's Head (plate 22) from the illustrated book Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time) 1920 (print executed in 1916)

Various Artists, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Walter Ruttmann, Gottfried Graf Das graphische Jahrbuch (The Print Yearbook) (1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Little Prophetess (Kleine Prophetin) from Das graphische Jahrbuch (The Print Yearbook) (1920, print executed 1919)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Head (Kopf) from the portfolio Seventeen Lithographs (Siebzehn Steinzeichnungen) (1921)

Various Artists, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Gerhard von Ruckteschell, Karl Opfermann, Heinrich Stegemann, Lasar Segall, Robert Koepke, Willi Titze, Siegfried Schott, Franz Radziwill Kündung. Eine Zeitschrift für Kunst 1921

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Cover from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Proclamation (Kündung) from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Cover from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 2 (February 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Cover from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 3 (March 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Cover from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'A' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921), 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'W' (Buchstabe 'W') from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'F' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'U' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'Z' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'B' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'I' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'S' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'J' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'G' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'D' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'H' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'E' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Ornamental initial 'O' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Cover from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 7, 8 (July, August 1921) 1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Dancer III (Tänzerin III) (1922)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Landscape with Lighthouse (Landschaft mit Leuchtturm) 1922

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Woman at the Piano (Frau am Klavier) 1923

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Harbor Street (Hafenstrasse) (1923)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Two Men at a Table (Zwei Männer am Tisch) 1923

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Portrait of H. Robinson (Bildnis H. Robinson) (1923)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Poster for the Deutscher Künstlerbund Exhibition in Stuttgart 1930

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Young Roman (Römischer Jüngling)
(c. 1908)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
The Sound (Das Wattenmeer)
1909

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Portrait of H. (Bildnis H.) from the portfolio Brücke 1909
(1909)

Various Artists, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel, Max Pechstein
KG Brücke
1910

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
House in the Park (Haus im Park) (plate, folio 9 verso) KG Brücke
1910

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Mower (Schnitter) (plate, folio 11 verso) from KG Brücke
1910

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Portrait of S. (Bildnis S.)
(1911)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Pharisees
1912

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Houses at Night
1912

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Boats on the Sea (Boote auf See)
(1913), published 1914

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
In the Bushes (Am Gebüsch)
(1914)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
At the Nets (Bei den Netzen) from the portfolio Ten Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff (Zehn Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff)
(1914), published 1919

Georg Tappert, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Heinrich Richter-Berlin, Georg Tappert, Cesar Klein
Die Aktion, vol. 4, no. 17
1914

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Die Aktion, vol. 4, no. 34/35
August 29, 1914

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Die Aktion, vol. 4, no. 38/39
September 26, 1914

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Girl before a Mirror (Mädchen vor dem Spiegel)
1914, published 1919

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Cats (Katzen) from the portfolio Ten Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff (Zehn Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff)
(1915), published 1919

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Die Aktion, vol. 5, no. 13
March 20, 1915

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Mother (Mutter) from the portfolio Ten Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff (Zehn Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff)
(1916), published 1919

Karl Jacob Hirsch, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Die Aktion, vol. 6, no. 9/10
March 4, 1916

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Die Aktion, vol. 6, no. 29/30
July 22, 1916

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
The Three Magi (Die heiligen drei Könige) from the portfolio Ten Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff (Zehn Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff)
(1917, published 1919)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Dunes and Pier (Dünen und Mole)
(1917), published 1923

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Girl with Braids (Mädchen mit Zöpfen) (plate, loose leaf) from the periodical Das Kunstblatt, vol. 2, no. 2 (Feb 1918)
1918 (executed 1917)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Couple (Menschenpaar) (plate, preceding p. 33) from the periodical Das Kunstblatt, vol. 2, no. 2 (Feb 1918)
1918 (executed 1917)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Emmaus
(1918)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Christ and the Adulteress (Kristus und die Ehebrecherin) from the portfolio 9 Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff (9 Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff)
(1918)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (Petri Fischzug) from the portfolio 9 Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff (9 Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff)
1918

Richard Bampi, A. Krapp, Wilhelm Schuler, Conrad Felixmüller, Hans Richter, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ottheinrich Strohmeyer
Die Aktion, vol. 8, no. 3/4
January 26, 1918

Stanislaw Kubicki, A. Krapp, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Freundlich
Die Aktion, vol. 8, no. 25/26
June 29, 1918

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Wilhelm Schuler, Ines Wetzel, Walter O. Grimm, Arthur Goetz, Bruno Beye, Wladislav Skotarek, Josef Capek, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Julius Kaufmann, Erich Goldbaum
Die Aktion, vol. 8, no. 39/40
October 5, 1918

Ines Wetzel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Georg Tappert
Die Aktion, vol. 8, no. 41/42
October 19, 1918

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Saint Francis (Der heilige Franziskus)
(1919)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Russian Landscape with Sun (Russische Landschaft mit Sonne)
(1919)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Die Aktion, vol. 9, no. 1
January 4, 1919

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Woman's Head (plate 22) from the illustrated book Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)
1920 (print executed in 1916)

Various Artists, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Walter Ruttmann, Gottfried Graf
Das graphische Jahrbuch (The Print Yearbook)
(1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Little Prophetess (Kleine Prophetin) from Das graphische Jahrbuch (The Print Yearbook)
(1920, print executed 1919)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Head (Kopf) from the portfolio Seventeen Lithographs (Siebzehn Steinzeichnungen)
(1921)

Various Artists, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Gerhard von Ruckteschell, Karl Opfermann, Heinrich Stegemann, Lasar Segall, Robert Koepke, Willi Titze, Siegfried Schott, Franz Radziwill
Kündung. Eine Zeitschrift für Kunst
1921

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Cover from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Proclamation (Kündung) from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Cover from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 2 (February 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Cover from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 3 (March 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Cover from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'A' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921),
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'W' (Buchstabe 'W') from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'F' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'U' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'Z' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'B' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'I' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'S' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'J' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'G' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'D' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'H' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'E' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ornamental initial 'O' from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 4, 5, 6 (April, May, June 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Cover from the periodical Kündung, vol. 1, no. 7, 8 (July, August 1921)
1921 (executed 1920)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Dancer III (Tänzerin III)
(1922)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Landscape with Lighthouse (Landschaft mit Leuchtturm)
1922

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Woman at the Piano (Frau am Klavier)
1923

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Harbor Street (Hafenstrasse)
(1923)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Two Men at a Table (Zwei Männer am Tisch)
1923

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Portrait of H. Robinson (Bildnis H. Robinson)
(1923)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Poster for the Deutscher Künstlerbund Exhibition in Stuttgart
1930