Frauenkopf (Woman's Head) from Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
1916, published 1920
Medium
woodcut from a bound volume with 15 lithographs, eight woodcuts, eight photomechanical reproductions, and one drypoint
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Robert M. Walker
Accession Number
1980.26.2.16
About the Artist
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976) was a German painter and printmaker who was a co-founder of Die Brücke (The Bridge), one of the most important groups of the Expressionist movement. Born Karl Schmidt in Rottluff near Chemnitz, he adopted his birthplace as a surname and in 1905, together with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, and Erich Heckel, founded Die Brücke in Dresden, a group dedicated to ...