Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Date/place of birth

01. December 1884 RottluffGermany

Day/place of death

10. August 1976 BerlinGermany

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - biography

Karl Schmidt-Rotluff was born on 1 December 1884 in Rottluff near Chemnitz to the miller Friedrich Schmidt, choosing to add “Rottluff” to his surname only in 1905. In the same year he started his architecture studies at the Technische Hochschule in Dresden and with artist friends Erich Heckel, Fritz Bleyl and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner founded the famous artist group “Brücke”. In the November of that year the group was able to hold its first exhibition. In 1907 the Hamburg art historian Rosa Schapire joined the group, choosing herself to be a passive member.

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ArtistArtworkPrice (incl. premium)
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Landschaft mit Karren (Landscape with cart) €150.000
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stilleben mit Chicorée €142.800
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Osterstrauss €99.200
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stilleben im Schatten (mit Rhabarber) €89.250
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Farnkraut €78.864
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Blumenstilleben (Flower still-life) €72.000