ROHLFS, Christian(1849 Niendorf, Holstein – 1938 Hagen, Westphalia)

"Green Forest"

Water tempera on paper. Monogrammed lower right; titled and numbered 45 on the reverse. (19)20.

48 x 61 cm. Framed & under glass : 72 x 84 cm (plain wooden frame).

Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Christian Rohlfs Archive at the Osthaus Museum in Hagen. Pinholes in the corners.

German painter and printmaker in Weimar, Munich, and Ascona. A student of Thumann at the Grand Ducal Art School in Weimar; from 1884 onward, he worked as a freelance artist in Weimar. During this period, he increasingly turned to Impressionism. In 1901, he taught at the Folkwang School in Hagen. By 1910 at the latest, he was considered an Expressionist and was elected to the jury of the German Artists’ Association. His art was deemed “degenerate” during the Nazi era. Rohlfs was banned from exhibiting, and several hundred of his works were confiscated.
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Bibliography: Thieme/Becker.