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Christian Rohlfs - Wald

Wald (1921)

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
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Christian Rohlfs

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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Der Onkel

Der Onkel (1928)

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Cat and Mouse

Cat and Mouse (1912-1913)

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Azaleen-Stämmchen

Azaleen-Stämmchen (1902)

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Männlicher Rückenakt (Studie zu ‘Römische Bauleute’)

Männlicher Rückenakt (Studie zu ‘Römische Bauleute’) (1879)

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Kirche in Gandria

Kirche in Gandria (1932)

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Poverty

Poverty (1919)

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König

König (1910)

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Teich am Abend

Teich am Abend (1896)

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Hängende Sonnenblume I

Hängende Sonnenblume I (1937)

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Roter Mohn

Roter Mohn (1925)

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Zwei Tanzende

Zwei Tanzende (1913)

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

Zwei tanzende Frauen am Strand (1926)

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