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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Sailboat by the Banks of Lake Leba [1939]

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Sailboat by the Banks of Lake Leba [1939]


Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Saxony, 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 honours bestowed on Schmidt-Rottluff after World War I, as Expressionism was officially recognised in Germany, were taken away from him after the rise to power of the Nazis. He was expelled from the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1933, two years after his admission. In 1937, 608 of Schmidt-Rottluff's paintings were seized from museums by the Nazis and several of them shown in exhibitions of degenerate art (Entartete Kunst). By 1941 he had been expelled from the painters guild and forbidden to paint.

[Sotheby’s, London - Gouache and watercolour on paper, 57.7 x 77.7 cm]

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