Three at a Table (Drei am Tisch)
Medium
woodcut in black on laid paper
Dimensions
block: 49.8 × 40 cm (19 5/8 × 15 3/4 in.) sheet: 61.6 × 50.9 cm (24 1/4 × 20 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1951.10.406
About the Artist
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976) was a German painter and printmaker who was a co-founder of Die Brücke (The Bridge), one of the most important groups of the Expressionist movement. Born Karl Schmidt in Rottluff near Chemnitz, he adopted his birthplace as a surname and in 1905, together with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, and Erich Heckel, founded Die Brücke in Dresden, a group dedicated to ...