Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl (shmĭt-rŏt`l

f), 1884–1976, German painter and woodcut artist. Schmidt-Rottluff cofounded and named the Brücke Brücke, Die [Ger.,=the bridge], German expressionist art movement, lasting from 1905 to 1913. Influenced by the art of Jugendstil (the German equivalent of art nouveau), Van Gogh, and the primitive sculpture of Africa and the South Seas, the
..... Click the link for more information. in 1905. After moving to Berlin in 1911, he developed an art of compelling color and mystical intensity influenced by fauvism fauvism (fō`vĭzəm) [Fr.
..... Click the link for more information. , cubism cubism, art movement, primarily in painting, originating in Paris c.1907.

Cubist Theory

Cubism began as an intellectual revolt against the artistic expression of previous eras.
..... Click the link for more information. , and primitive art. His vigorous graphic technique are best realized in his woodcuts (e.g., The Way to Emmaus, 1918; Philadelphia Mus. of Art).

Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl

orig. Karl Schmidt

Self-Portrait with Monocle, oil on canvas by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, …

(credit: Courtesy of the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin)

(born Dec. 1, 1884, Rottluff, Ger.—died Aug. 9, 1976, West Berlin, W.Ger.) German painter and printmaker. As an architecture student in Dresden, he helped form Die Brücke in 1905. He soon realized the expressive potential of flat, patterned design; his mature style, seen in Self-Portrait with Monocle (1910), is characterized by boldly dissonant colours and jagged forms. After 1911, when he moved to Berlin, his paintings and woodcuts showed an interest in Cubism and African sculpture. Though his works had become more conventional by the 1930s, the Nazis officially declared them “degenerate.” After World War II he taught art and resumed painting, but his work never regained its former power.