Schmidt-Rottluff and art historian Dr Rosa Schapire were good friends. She received many hand-painted postcards from the artist of which this is an example.

Schmidt-Rottluff and art historian Dr Rosa Schapire were good friends. She received many hand-painted postcards from the artist of which this is an example.

Sent as a postcard by Emy Frisch (later the artist's wife) to art historian Dr Rosa Schapire.

Albrecht Dürer was born in the Imperial free city of Nuremberg (Germany) on the 21st May 1471, to a family of Hungarian goldsmiths. Initially apprenticed to his father, Dürer spent most of his life in Nuremberg, but also made three significant…

Lovis Corinth was born 21 July 1858 in Tapiau, Germany and died 17 July 1925 in Zandvoort, the Netherlands. Corinth moved to Munich in 1891, joined the Munich Secession a year later, and in 1893 became one of the founders of the Free Artists…

Curt Ehrhardt was born 29 June 1895 in Saxony and died in 1972 in Schwarz, Hesse, Germany. In 1916 Ehrhardt visited the travelling exhibition “Der Sturm” in Berlin and thus saw works by Picasso, Schwitters and Marc. This caused him to get in touch…

Emil Nolde (1867-1956) was born as Emil Hansen in Nolde, a town in the North of Germany. He was initially trained as a woodcarver but started to paint as an independent artist in 1898. Before he settled in 1903 in Alsen during the summer and in…

Otto Dix (1891-1969) studied in Dresden from 1910-1914 and was a painter of wall-decorations until he taught himself painting. Like many artists, Dix was initially enthusiastic when the First World War broke out and was a soldier throughout the war.…

Alfred Hess (1879-1931) was a wealthy Jewish shoe manufacturer. In the 1920s Hess shoes were a byword for quality, exported all over Europe and abroad from the four large ‘M & L Hess Schuhfabrik’ factories in the town. Alfred Hess also…