Karl schmidt rottluff biography of william murphy

Rottluff bei Chemnitz - Berlin The painter, print-maker and sculptor Karl Schmidt was born at Rottluff near Chemnitz in His father was a miller. In he enrolled to study architecture at Dresden Technical University. Their first joint portfolio of prints appeared in 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 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 , 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 he returned to Berlin. During the s he reverted to the work rhythm of travelling to paint during the summers and working in his studio during the winters.

German expressionist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff included a

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 inspired his mature still lifes and landscapes. In his work was declared degenerate at the notorious Munich exhibition of "Degenerate Art". By he was forbidden to paint and was expelled from the painters' guild.

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. 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. Interested in works by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff?