Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938) was born in Nierendorf and studied first in Berlin and then in Weimar where he met Liebermann in 1874. In 1901, he left Weimar and, following an invitation by the collector Karl Ernst Osthaus, went to Hagen where he…

For Rohlfs and other artists in Alfred Hess’ circle, Erfurt became its own subject. In 1924 Dr Walter Kaesbach, Director of the City Museum, invited Rohlfs to stay in Erfurt. He hoped that the architecture of the medieval Cathedral and St Severus…

Woodcut, 1927.

Many developed a radical, modernist approach, placing them firmly within the Expressionist canon of work. Many had found initial success through the Berlin Secession, the breakaway progressive faction at the turn of the century led by Max…

Gouche, 1929.

Woodcut, 1913.

Gouache and watercolour, 1920.

Gouache and watercolour, 1923.