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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Die Brücke IV (1909)1909

Not on view
Woodcut print in terracotta-orange ink, with bold white lettering reading 'BRÜCKE 1909,' a large angular face, and small carved vignettes of a sailboat and figures
Lithograph portrait of a man's face rendered with loose, expressive black lines on white paper; dark brushy hair, heavy brows, and a mustache defined with minimal gestural marks; handwritten signature in pencil at lower right.
Black and white lithograph of a city street receding toward a dense cluster of dark buildings, with bold gestural marks and heavy ink tones contrasting against the pale road surface.
Etching of a cluster of old buildings with steeply pitched roofs, rendered in energetic, sketchy lines with dense cross-hatching on the roof surfaces.
Artist or Maker
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Artist or Maker
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Title
Die Brücke IV (1909)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1909
Medium
One woodcut, two lithographs and one etching on wove paper
Dimensions
See individual objects
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.368a-d
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Beisiegel, Katharina. I Pretended to Study Architecture: the Unknown Kirchner. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2024.