"The World Must Always be Seen Anew"

 
The exhibition draws on this rich collection and offers an overview of the artist’s entire oeuvre – from his expressionist beginnings in 1905 to his monumental, colourful, and powerful late work of the 1960s. It reveals not only an impressive stylistic development, but also a close connection between art and biography.



The collection exhibition becomes a journey through the stages of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s life:

influenced by the revolutionary spirit of the Brücke artists’ group and by the First and Second World Wars, he always remained true to himself and his artistic attitude – and discovered the world “always anew”. Through the interplay of vibrant colours and deliberate simplification of form, he imbues his motifs with an emotional power that is still palpable today.


With this multifaceted exhibition, the Brücke Museum not only honours Schmidt-Rottluff’s expressionist work and his generous donation to the State of Berlin – the founding hour of the museum – but also presents research on the artist’s catalogue raisonné.