Head of a Woman (Frauenkopf)
Medium
woodcut in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
image: 25.7 x 17.9 cm (10 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.) sheet: 32.2 x 24.5 cm (12 11/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dr. Ruth Ivor
Accession Number
1993.73.1
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 ...