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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

1884 - 1976

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Karl Schmidt until 1905; 1 December 1884 – 10 August 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker; he was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff is the 548th most popular painter (down from 456th in 2019), the 1,535th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,245th in 2019) and the 55th most popular German Painter.

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff is most famous for his paintings of landscapes, portraits, and still lifes. He was a member of the Die Brücke group.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ranks 548 out of 2,023. Before him are Giuseppe Crespi, Françoise Gilot, Clara Peeters, Andreas Achenbach, Émile Friant, and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. After him are Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Remedios Varo, Paloma Picasso, Sebastiano Ricci, Martiros Saryan, and Ambrosius Bosschaert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ranks 53. Before him are Louis B. Mayer, Johan Laidoner, Empress Teimei, Béla Balázs, Hugo Schmeisser, and Princess Helen of Serbia. After him are Wilhelm Backhaus, Félix Gouin, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Henri Cornet, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, and Yasuji Okamura. Among people deceased in 1976, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ranks 62. Before him are Lee J. Cobb, Mikhail Gurevich, Ivan Yakubovsky, Michael Polanyi, Gilbert Ryle, and David Elazar. After him are Walter Warlimont, Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Arnold Gehlen, Harry Nyquist, Adolph Zukor, and Walter H. Schottky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ranks 1,535 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Ernst August of Hanover (1954), Tarkan (1972), Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1654), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), Fabian von Schlabrendorff (1907), and Karl Richter (1926). After him are Albert Günther (1830), Karl August von Hardenberg (1750), Douglas Sirk (1897), Walther Gerlach (1889), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), and Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal (1861).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ranks 55. Before him are Heinrich Füger (1751), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751), Joachim von Sandrart (1606), and Andreas Achenbach (1815). After him are Anton von Werner (1843), Peter von Cornelius (1784), Wolf Vostell (1932), Max Pechstein (1881), Oswald Achenbach (1827), and Karl von Piloty (1826).

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