Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884 in Rottluff; died August 10, 1976 in Berlin) was a German expressionist painter.

Karl Schmidt was born in Rottluff near Chemnitz (Saxonia) and began to call himself Schmidt-Rottluff in 1905. On 7 June 1905, the group of artists known as Die Brücke ('the bridge') was created by the architecture students Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl and Erich Heckel in Dresden. In November 1905 the first exhibition of the Brücke followed in Leipzig. In 1913 the group dissolved, and in 1938 its 608 works of art were shown as 'degenerate art' ('Entartete Kunst') in German museums. In 1947, Schmidt-Rottluff was appointed a professor at the university of arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

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