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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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Seerosen

Seerosen (1925)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Sonnenblume (Sonnenblumenkopf)

Sonnenblume (Sonnenblumenkopf) (1934)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Sonnenblumen

Sonnenblumen

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Sonnenblumen

Sonnenblumen (1929)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Sonnenblumenköpfe (Sonnenblumen im Krug)

Sonnenblumenköpfe (Sonnenblumen im Krug) (1934)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Spaziergänger

Spaziergänger (1919)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Stillleben mit Melone

Stillleben mit Melone (1928)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Straße im Tessin (Seeufer-Straße)

Straße im Tessin (Seeufer-Straße) (1930)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Streit

Streit (1910)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Tänzerin

Tänzerin (1919)

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

Tod als Jongleur (Revolution) (1918)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Weiblicher Rückenakt

Weiblicher Rückenakt (1916-1922)

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

Weiße Rosen (1922)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Welkende Sonnenblumen mit Blau

Welkende Sonnenblumen mit Blau (1922)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Zwei tanzende Frauen am Strand

Zwei tanzende Frauen am Strand (1926)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Abstract
Roter Mohn

Roter Mohn (1925)

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

Hexe (1910)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Drawings
Die gute Tante

Die gute Tante (1910)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Drawings
Schlafendes Ehepaar

Schlafendes Ehepaar (1936)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Drawings
Stehender weiblicher Rückenakt

Stehender weiblicher Rückenakt (1909)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Drawings
Verliebt

Verliebt (1912)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Drawings
Poverty

Poverty (1919)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Drawings
Man’s head

Man’s head

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Drawings
Woman’s head

Woman’s head

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Drawings
Three standing men

Three standing men (1918)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Drawings
Der Trinker

Der Trinker (1915)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Drawings
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