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Christian Rohlfs
Christian Rohlfs

Christian Rohlfs

German, 1849-1938
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Christian Rohlfs was a German painter and printmaker, one of the important representatives of German expressionism.

He was born in Groß Niendorf, Kreis Segeberg in Prussia. He took up painting as a teenager while convalescing from an infection that was eventually to lead to the amputation of a leg in 1874. He began his formal artistic education in Berlin, before transferring, in 1870, to the Weimar Academy. Initially he painted large-scale landscapes, working through a variety of academic, naturalist, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist styles. In 1901 left Weimar for Hagen, where the collector Karl Ernst Osthaus had offered him a studio in the modern art museum he was setting up there. Meetings with Edvard Munch and Emil Nolde and the experience of seeing the works of Vincent van Gogh inspired him to move towards the expressionist style, in which he would work for the rest of his career.

In 1908, at the age of 60, he made his first prints after seeing an exhibition of works by the expressionist group Die Brücke. He went on to make 185 in total, almost all woodcuts or linocuts. In rare instances he experimented with heavily hand-coloring his prints, onto the verge of painting and sometimes well after they were made, as in his 1919 recoloring of the prior year's Der Gefangene.

In May 1922 he attended the International Congress of Progressive Artists and signed the "Founding Proclamation of the Union of Progressive International Artists".

He lived in Munich and the Tyrol in 1910–12, before returning to Hagen. In 1929 the town of Hagen opened a Christian Rohlfs Museum. In 1937 the Nazis expelled him from the Prussian Academy of Arts, condemned his work as degenerate, and removed his works from public collections. He died in Hagen, Westfalia, on January 8, 1938.

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Sailboats in the Harbor

Sailboats in the Harbor (1905-1910)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Dunkle Köpfe auf Rot

Dunkle Köpfe auf Rot (1928)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Landscape

Landscape (1870s)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Cat and Mouse

Cat and Mouse (1912-1913)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
König

König (1910)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Illustration
Helene Rohlfs

Helene Rohlfs (1926)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Akt

Akt (1922)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Datura Japonica (Engelstrompeten)

Datura Japonica (Engelstrompeten) (1936)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Paar (Szene im Café)

Paar (Szene im Café) (1912)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Weiße Hyazinthe

Weiße Hyazinthe (1916)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Aktstudie

Aktstudie (1920)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Blumenstillleben

Blumenstillleben (Um 1916)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Bunter Sommerblumenstrauß

Bunter Sommerblumenstrauß (1915)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Herabhängender Zweig mit roten und grünen Tomaten

Herabhängender Zweig mit roten und grünen Tomaten (1906)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Kniender Akt

Kniender Akt (1916)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Pantoffelblume

Pantoffelblume (1919)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Sängerin I

Sängerin I (1921)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Stehender weiblicher Akt

Stehender weiblicher Akt (1925)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Zwei Tanzende

Zwei Tanzende (1913)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Haus in Bosco

Haus in Bosco (1933)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Herbstlandschaft

Herbstlandschaft (1903)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Sommerlandschaft

Sommerlandschaft (1899)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Forest

Forest (1900)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Blaue Magnolie

Blaue Magnolie (1929)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Blühender Kaktus

Blühender Kaktus (1933)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Erling

Erling (1920)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Kiefern auf dem Ettersberg

Kiefern auf dem Ettersberg (1899)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Teich am Abend

Teich am Abend (1896)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Landschaft

Landschaft (1903)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
See im Abendlicht

See im Abendlicht (1911)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
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