Female Head by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Woodcut, 1916.
Art work details
- Original Title :
- Frauenkopf
- Year of production :
- 1916
- Artist:
- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
- Medium :
- Original print, Woodcut
- Materials:
- Ink, Paper (yellow)
- Dimensions :
- height: 17.5 cms; width: 24.1 cms
- Credit Line :
- Bequest of Dr Rosa Schapire
- Copyright :
- © DACS 2013.
- Associated Groups :
- Die Brücke
- Tags:
- World War I, Portrait, Woodcut, Schmidt Rottluff, Rosa Schapire
The simplified forms of the heavily patterned face show the influence of tribal African masks, examples of which the Brücke artists had first encountered in the Dresden Museum of Ethnography. The group were excited by the art of Polynesia and Africa, which they viewed as creatively authentic, untainted by Western ideas and social restrictions, and thus the purest form of expression.
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