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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ( December 1 , 1884 - August 10 , 1976 ) was a German Expressionist Painter and Printmaker , and a member of Die Brücke . BIOGRAPHY Karl Schmidt was born in Rottluff , near Chemnitz , ( Saxony ), and began to call himself Schmidt-Rottluff in 1905. On 7 June , 1905 , the group of artists known as Die Brücke ("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 Brücke 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 Woodcut s, 105 Lithograph s, 70 Etching s, and 78 commercial prints described in the Rosa Shapire Catalogue raisonné. He died in Berlin in 1976. SEE ALSO
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