Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Jünglingskopf (Head of a Youth)
Artwork Detail
A founder and leading member of the German Die Brücke group, Schmidt-Rottluff was instrumental in reviving the woodcut as a powerfully expressive medium. This work demonstrates his angular graphic style and distortion of form for emotional effect. The artists of Die Brücke were inspired by African and Pacific art, a sense of which is conveyed here in the mask-like nature of the head and its simplified, flattened features. (Headspace, 2002)
- Title
- Jünglingskopf (Head of a Youth)
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 1914
- Medium
- woodcut
- Dimensions
- 452 x 344 mm
- Inscription
- (below image - pencil) S. Rottluff 1914 (l.r.)
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Estate of Dr Rosa Schapire, 1956
- Accession no
- 1956/14/2
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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