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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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Riverside landscape(Ruhr near Hohensyburg)

Riverside landscape(Ruhr near Hohensyburg) (circa 1902)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Moses Seeing the Promised Land

Moses Seeing the Promised Land (1912)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Religion
Kornfeld

Kornfeld (1907)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Zwei Schwestern (Two Sisters)

Zwei Schwestern (Two Sisters)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Die blauen Berge

Die blauen Berge (ca 1912)

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

Haus in Soest (1920)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Soest

Soest (ca 1916)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Bäume

Bäume (1913)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Westfälische Landschaft

Westfälische Landschaft (1913)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Belvedere Allee in Weimar

Belvedere Allee in Weimar (1889)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Garten in Soest

Garten in Soest (1906)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Female nude, seen from behind.

Female nude, seen from behind.

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Ghiridone in the snow (Lago Maggiore)

Ghiridone in the snow (Lago Maggiore) (1935)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Haus der Familie Andernach in Soest

Haus der Familie Andernach in Soest (1905)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Rosen und Nelken

Rosen und Nelken (1925)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Still Life
Granithäuser (Arcegno)

Granithäuser (Arcegno) (1927)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Kloster Andechs

Kloster Andechs (1921)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Möbelwagen

Möbelwagen (1919)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Village Street in Ehringsdorf near Weimar

Village Street in Ehringsdorf near Weimar (1893)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
Kneeling nude to the left

Kneeling nude to the left

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Sitting Couple (Nudes)

Sitting Couple (Nudes) (1910)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Three Reclining Nudes

Three Reclining Nudes

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Two Dancing Figures

Two Dancing Figures (ca. 1913)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Bare Conifers

Bare Conifers (1921)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Magnolia Bud

Magnolia Bud (1937)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Rotbraune Tanne

Rotbraune Tanne (1921)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Standing man

Standing man

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Kecke junge Dame (Flapper)

Kecke junge Dame (Flapper) (Ca. 1927-1929)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Kniender Rückenakt

Kniender Rückenakt (1920)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Figurative
Ghiridone im Winter

Ghiridone im Winter (1936)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Landscape
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