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Lot description
1928. Coloured chalks. 50 x 34,5 cm. Framed under glass. On the reverse estate stamp with signature of Rohlfs' wife as well as titled and dated. Inconspicuous handling creases. - Provenance: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 03.12.2013; Galerie Roche, Bremen; private collection Munich - Important German expressionist painter. R. studied at the Weimar academy under P. Thumann since 1870, developed his style from naturalism to impressionism in his Weimar time. On invitation of K. E. Osthaus he became teacher at the Folkwang university of the arts in 1901. Many of his works were removed from museums as 'degenerate' by the Nazis in 1937. His art was honoured posthumously at the Documenta I in 1955. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Berlin, Munich, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf, Essen (Folkwang-Mus.), Aachen, Hagen, Weimar a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit a. others.