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Christian Rohlfs

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Pointillist landscape of a pale path beside a red poppy field, with distant trees and hills under a dotted sky.

Ruhr Valley near Hohensyburg

1902

Painting of a red-roofed house with green shutters, loose green trees and a small figure, under a blue sky.

House with a Red Roof

1912

Expressionist painting of red roofs among trees, with bold blue, yellow, and green brushwork across the canvas.

Rote Dächer unter Bäumen

1913

Painting of white birch trees with bright red and orange autumn leaves under a blue sky, in bold impasto brushwork.

White Beeches in Fall

1910

Painting of curving brown and red mountain ridges under a swirling yellow and orange sky, with a blue form at the right edge.

Visionary Landscape

1912

Painting of a sunlit square with a stone building, arched doorway, flowering trees, and two small figures walking.

Burgplatz near the Grand Ducal Palace at Weimar

1885

The Temptation of Christ

1914

Expressive painting of red-roofed houses and tall church spires in Soest, rendered in thick, textured brushstrokes.

The Collegiate Church of St. Patrocli in Soest

1912

Painting of two men seated at slanted drawing desks in a dim studio beneath a hanging lamp.

At the Weimar Academy

1875

Back view of a standing male nude with one arm raised, painted in loose brushstrokes against a teal wall and brown floor.

Männlicher Rückenakt

1905

Pointillist summer landscape with red poppies and green fields under a speckled blue sky, horizon low across the canvas.

Summer Landscape

1902

Painting of a reclining nude woman with closed eyes on a patterned maroon and orange cloth against turquoise.

Female Nude

1911

Painting of tall pine trunks in a forest, rendered in pink, green, orange and blue dabs of paint over the ground.

Trunks of Pines in Sunlight

1903

Oil painting of half-timbered houses with white walls and dark beams beside a cobbled street, with a red roof and trees.

Half-timbered Houses

1905

Painting of a woman in a dark dress reading a book in a gold-trimmed armchair, with loose expressive brushwork.

Woman reading in an Armchair

1905

Oil painting of a row of pollarded willow trees across a green meadow under a pale, cloudy sky.

Pollard willows

1922

Pointillist portrait of a bearded man with short dark hair against a green background, painted in dots of colour.

Holstein Farmer

1903

Painting of a Romanesque church tower with a tall spire and a yellow-leaved tree in a sunlit square under blue sky.

St. Patroclus in Soest

1905

Painting of a couple: a woman in a yellow dress and green hat beside a man in a dark coat and hat, bold black outlines.

Couple

1910

Expressive painting of a bearded prophet with raised arms above a small upturned face, in blue, ochre and white.

The Prophet

1917

Watercolor and ink sketch of a goat standing among loose green and teal grass strokes.

Ziege

1907

Expressive painting of a central dark figure with raised arms, surrounded by red, blue and yellow brushstrokes and a yellow h

The Spirit of God moved upon the waters

1916

Painting of a weathered covered wooden bridge over a shallow river, with a horse and figures wading in the water.

The Covered Ilm Bridge in Buchfahrt near Weimar

1889

Painting of a seated nude woman seen from behind, with dark hair and white drapery against a blue-grey background.

Rückenakt

1879

Painting of church spires and rooftops among trees under a sky of short colorful brushstrokes.

Weiblicher Akt

1906

Thick oil painting of a winter river with ice floes, snowy bank and bare trees under a pale sky.

Am Ilmufer bei Weimar im Winter

1899

Painting of a snowy road lined with bare trees, with two figures carrying bundles walking toward a distant village.

The Road to Gelmeroda

1893

Painting of a bearded man in a red robe and white headdress looking out over blue waves and a sandy foreground.

Moses Surveying the Promised Land

1912

Abstract painting of a blue mountain made of angular blue, white, yellow and red brushstrokes in diagonal bands.

Abstraction (the Blue Mountain)

1912

Oil painting of rolling summer landscape with green tree clusters, colourful fields and a pale hazy sky.

Summer Landscape near Weimar

1904

Painting of a sunlit village street with a thatched house, chickens on a dirt road, and a church spire in the distance.

Village Street in Ehringsdorf near Weimar

1893

Painting of a pale winged angel with red hair leaning forward against a dark blue background.

Angel who carries light into the tombs

1925

Impressionist painting of a sunlit forest clearing with birch and pine trees on a golden slope under a pale blue sky.

Vorfrühlingslandschaft

1900

Expressive painting of a rider in reddish-brown tones leaning over a dark galloping horse against a pale background.

Amazon

1912

Child amidst Flowers

1927

Painting of pollarded willow trees on a grassy slope under a blue sky, rendered in loose green, orange and blue brushwork.

Willows II

1904

Watercolor landscape of village houses and trees above striped red, green and yellow fields under a cloudy sky.

Landscape

1870s

Black and cream woodcut of a bearded father embracing a kneeling younger man in a dark interior.

Return of the Prodigal Son

1916

Woodcut print of three angular figures in close conversation with gesturing hands, in olive and dark green ink.

Deliberation (Beratung)

1913

Woodcut of a skeletal death figure bent forward, carrying a coffin on its shoulder against a dark background.

Death with a Coffin

c. 1917

Black ink print of sailboats with tall masts and sails in a harbor, with reflections in the water below.

Sailboats in the Harbor

1905-1910

Black and cream woodcut of three crowned robed figures bearing gifts beneath a radiating star, with bold angular lines.

The Magi

c. 1910

Woodcut of figures in a turbulent flood scene, with orange-red forms against black and cream striped areas.

Flood (Sintflut)

c. 1918

Ink and wash drawing of three nude figures reclining and embracing, outlined in bold black with brown and ochre tones.

Three Reclining Nudes

Colored drawing of two seated nude figures with bold black outlines, yellow skin tones, and stylized green foliage.

Sitting Couple (Nudes)

1910

Expressive dark drawing of a hunched standing man with clasped hands against a pale pink background.

Standing man

Green-toned ink and wash drawing of three standing men in robes, one bearded, leaning toward each other.

Three standing men

1918

Loose brown wash drawing of a kneeling nude woman with dark hair, bent forward, framed by a black brushed border.

Kneeling nude to the left

Loose brown monochrome sketch of a man's head and shoulders on a speckled pale ground, by Christian Rohlfs.

Man's head

Woman's head

Woodcut-style print of a hunched old man with a staff, in red-brown and black tones.

Old Man

1918