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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a German expressionist painter and printmaker; he was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke.
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culture · German artist · sculptor · painter · university teacher · graphic artist · illustrator · lithographer · designer · draftsperson · art collector · exlibrist · also Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl S. Rottluff, Karl Schmidt- Rottluff, Karl Schmidt-Rotluff, Karl Rottluff, S Rottluff
Born 1 December 1884 · Died 10 August 1976 · Q161143
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The Neue Nationalgalerie returned two paintings by Schmidt-Rottluff, a 1920 self-portrait and a 1910 landscape titled Farm in Dangast, to the heirs of Robert Graetz, a Berlin businessman who was deported by the Nazis to
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£925,500 was paid for Schmidt-Rottluff's Dangaster Park (1910) at Sotheby's in London
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Died 1976-08-10.
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“..we didn't have the intention at all of founding a new style.. .What we wanted, was a refusal of the outmoded, overly-cultivated art practices.”
Awarded Lovis Corinth Prize (1974).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Berlin (1970).
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Won Ernst Reuter Medal (1967).
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Provided the basis for the Brücke Museum in West Berlin, which opened in 1967 as a repository of works by members of the group
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Awarded Cornelius Award (1955).
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Awarded Berliner Kunstpreis (1952).
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Awarded German Critics' Prize for Visual Art (1951).
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Schmidt-Rottluff was appointed professor at the University of Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg, where he would go on to have a great influence on the new generation of German artists
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Awarded honorary citizenship in Chemnitz (1946).
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Two years after his admission In 1937, 608 of Schmidt-Rottluff's paintings were seized from museums by the Nazis and several of them shown in exhibitions of "degenerate art"
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Awarded Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo (1930).
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Largely due to the artist's independent moves to Berlin and a systemic shift in artistic direction from each individual member
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Studied at TU Dresden (1905–1906).
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Schmidt added his native town of Rottluff to his surname
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Following in Heckel's footsteps, but gave up after one term
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Born 1884-12-01.
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