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German artist

This article is about the German painter. For people with the same or similar names, see Carl Schmidt.

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

Karl schmidt-rottluff woodcuts

Life and work

Schmidt-Rottluff was born in Rottluff, nowadays a district of Chemnitz, on 1 December He attended the humanistische gymnasium (classics-oriented secondary school) in Chemnitz, where he befriended Erich Heckel.

He enrolled in architecture at the Sächsische Technische Hochschule in Dresden in , following in Heckel's footsteps, but gave up after one term.^[1] Whilst he was there, however, Erich Heckel introduced him to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl.

They all passionately shared similar artistic interests and used architecture as a front to study art. They founded Die Brücke in Dresden on 7 June , with the aim of creating a