Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a famous German painter and printmaker associated with Die Brücke (The Bridge) group and the Expressionist art movement. He is best known for his raw landscapes and portraits. Famous Karl Schmidt-Rottluff artworks include “Self-Portrait with Monocle”, “Sea Snails”, “Sun over the Pine Forest”, “Still Life (Sanseveria and Jar)”, “Rising Moon”, “Woman with a Bag”, “Evening in the Room”, “Portrait of Emy”, “The Factory”, and “Two Girls in a Garden”.
Mini biography: Born Karl Schmidt on the 1st of December, 1884 in Rottluff (Chemnitz), Germany. Schmidt-Rottluff married Emy Frisch in 1918. The artist died on the 10th of August, 1976 in West Berlin, West Germany at the age of 91. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff is buried at the Waldfriedhof Dahlem, Berlin, Germany.
List of Famous Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Art Quotes
The essence of art can never change. I’m convinced you can’t talk about art. At best, you will have a translation, a poetic paraphrase, and as for that I’ll leave that to the poets. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
On occasion I came to exaggerate certain forms, in violation of scientific proportion but in accordance with the balance of their spiritual relationships to each other. I made heads vastly oversized in relation to other parts of the body, because the head is the point of concentration of all the psyche, all expression. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
We didn’t have the intention at all of founding a new style. What we wanted, was a refusal of the outmoded, overly-cultivated art practices. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Art is forever manifesting itself in new forms, since there are forever new personalities – its essence can never alter, I believe. Perhaps I am wrong. But speaking for myself, I know that I have no program, only the unaccountable longing to grasp what I see and feel, and to find the purest means of expressing for it. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Self-Portrait Painting
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