Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker.
He was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke.
Life and work
Schmidt-Rottluff was born in Rottluff, nowadays a district of Chemnitz, on 1 December 1884.
He attended the humanistische gymnasium (classics-oriented secondary school) in Chemnitz, where he befriended Erich Heckel.
He enrolled in architecture at the Sächsische Technische Hochschule in Dresden in 1905, following in Heckel's footsteps, but gave up after one term.