Karl Schmidt Rottluff. Ostseebilder

Karl SchmidtRottluff (1 December 1884 10 August 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, and a member of Die Brücke. He was born in Rottluff, today a district of Chemnitz, (Saxony), and began to call himself SchmidtRottluff in 1905. On 7 June 1905 the group of artists known as Die Brücke ( the bridge ) was created by the architecture students SchmidtRottluff, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl and Erich Heckel in Dresden. In November 1905, the first exhibition of Die Brücke opened in Leipzig. The group later dissolved in 1913. In 1937, 608 of SchmidtRottluff s paintings were seized from museums by the Nazis and several of them shown in exhibitions of degenerate art ( Entartete Kunst ). In 1947, SchmidtRottluff was appointed a professor at the University of Arts in Berlin Charlottenburg. He was a prolific printmaker, with 300 woodcuts, 105 lithographs, 70 etchings, and 78 commercial prints described in the Rosa Schapire1 Catalogue raisonné. He died Berlin in 1976.