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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)