![Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Paintbrushes (In Memoriam Walter Gramatté) [1963]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5823/21738489082_1d06e609dd_o.jpg)
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Rottluff, December 1, 1884 – Berlin, August 10, 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, one of the four founder-members of the artist group Die Brücke. The group was founded in Dresden on June 7, 1905, and its first exhibition opened in Leipzig in November of the same year. He served in the army on the eastern front in 1915–18, before returning to Berlin, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period during the Second World War, when he returned to Rottluff following the destruction of his studio in an air raid. An endowment made by him in 1964 provided the basis for the Brücke Museum in West Berlin, which opened in 1967 as a repository of works by members of the group.
[Winnipeg Art Gallery - Oil on canvas, 72.9 x 64.9 cm]