"He returned from the field altered [of World War 1.], but the new impulse came less out of political and social revolution than.. ..out of the assurance that there existed a tie to the numinous, the sacred, the religious.. .He gives the old symbols new content through human bearing and transforms them into symbolic terms of expression with contemporary appeal.. .What he painted in 1919 and 1920 was born out of the sense of being near death and again being given the gift of life."
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Will Grohmann, in Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart: 1956, pp. 90, 92; as quoted in 'The Revival of Printmaking in Germany', I. K. Rigby; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California & Prestel-Verlag, Germany, 1986, p. 46
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1 December 1884 – 10 August 1976) was a German Expressionist painter and print-maker; participating as young artist in the German artist group Die Brücke.
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