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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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Alpenveilchen

Alpenveilchen (1918)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Bauernhaus in Holstein

Bauernhaus in Holstein (1922)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Feldmohn in blauer Vase

Feldmohn in blauer Vase (1923)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Gelbe Magnolie

Gelbe Magnolie (1930)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Pilze

Pilze (1920)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Tulpen

Tulpen (1913-15)

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

Weiße Hyazinthe (1916)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
David und Saul

David und Saul (1919)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Dunkle Cosmeen

Dunkle Cosmeen (1935)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Häuser in Soest

Häuser in Soest (1918)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Hexenritt

Hexenritt (1916)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Kornpuppen im Kornfeld

Kornpuppen im Kornfeld (1907)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Ochsenfuhrwerk

Ochsenfuhrwerk (1920)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Tessiner Häuser I

Tessiner Häuser I (1928)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Tod als Jongleur (Revolution)

Tod als Jongleur (Revolution) (1935)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Arbeiter mit nacktem Oberkörper

Arbeiter mit nacktem Oberkörper (1920-30)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Liegender Weiblicher Rückenakt

Liegender Weiblicher Rückenakt (1910)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Bursche mit Hut

Bursche mit Hut (1921)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Frauenakt mit gelbem Blumenstrauß (Mädchen auf der Wiese)

Frauenakt mit gelbem Blumenstrauß (Mädchen auf der Wiese) (1905)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Tänzerin

Tänzerin (1919)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Weiblicher Akt

Weiblicher Akt (1918)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Blumenstillleben

Blumenstillleben (1934)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Botanical
Roter Amaryllis

Roter Amaryllis (1931)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Botanical
Hahn und Huhn

Hahn und Huhn (1906)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Animals
Azalee

Azalee (1910)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Still Life
Dahlien

Dahlien (1925)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Still Life
Magnolienknospe im Krug

Magnolienknospe im Krug (1930)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Grotte im Park Weimar

Grotte im Park Weimar (1894)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
The Road to Gelmeroda

The Road to Gelmeroda (1893)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Abstraction (the Blue Mountain)

Abstraction (the Blue Mountain) (1912)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
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