The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Stadtbild aus Soest
1923
(German, 1884–1976)
Image: 59.7 x 49.7 cm (23 1/2 x 19 9/16 in.); Sheet: 66.3 x 53.2 cm (26 1/8 x 20 15/16 in.)
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1959.230
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Catalogue raisonné: Schapire 285
Location: not on view
Description
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff worked almost exclusively in the woodcut medium after World War I. While other Expressionists focused on the city as the embodiment of corruption, agony, and suffering, Schmidt-Rottluff created one that operates seemingly outside of such pessimistic realities. His two church spires extend to the sky and relay an ecstatic vision, while the jagged angles and patterns of light across the surface make the city pulse with energy.- "Talks and Tours.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 58, no. 3 (May/June 2018): 24. Reproduced: P. 24.
- Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-September 9, 1984).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1959.230