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Look at the grain of the wood running down through the red, then at how a few hard white cuts build Schmidt-Rottluff’s face.
From 1906 the Brücke sent a yearly portfolio of prints to its passive members, friends who paid to support the artists, and each portfolio was given to one artist. The fourth, in 1909, was Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s. Kirchner made its cover, a woodcut in red with a portrait of his friend. Down the left side run a small landscape, a portrait and a nude, the three main subjects of the group.
woodcut in red · image: 40 × 30 cm · National Gallery of Art · Die Brücke
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Cover of the Fourth Yearbook of the Artist Group the Brucke
- Artist
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German, 1880 - 1938
- Date
- 1909
- Medium
- woodcut in red
- Dimensions
- image: 40 × 30 cm (15 3/4 × 11 13/16 in.) sheet: 55.3 × 41.5 cm (21 3/4 × 16 5/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Rosenwald Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.