Female Head by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Woodcut, 1916.

Female Head

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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