Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (December 1, 1884 - August 10, 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, and a member of Die Brucke.

Karl Schmidt was born in Rottluff, today a district of Chemnitz, (Saxony), and began to call himself Schmidt-Rottluff in 1905.

On 7 June 1905, the group of artists known as Die Brucke ("the bridge") was created by the architecture students Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl and Erich Heckel in Dresden. In November 1905 the first exhibition of Die Brucke followed in Leipzig. The group dissolved in 1913.

In 1937, 608 of his paintings were seized from museums by the Nazis and several of them shown in exhibitions of "degenerate art" ("Entartete Kunst"). In 1947, Schmidt-Rottluff was appointed a professor at the University of Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

He was a prolific printmaker, with 300 woodcuts, 105 lithographs, 70 etchings, and 78 commercial prints described in the Rosa Schapire Catalogue raisonne.

He died in Berlin in 1976.

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