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Christian Rohlfs

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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

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

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

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

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

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

The Prophet

1917

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

Rückenakt

1879

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

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

Angel who carries light into the tombs

1925

Oil painting of a blossoming orchard with dark tree trunks, a small walking figure on a path, and a hazy horizon.

Blühende Obstplantage

1895

Expressionist painting of a yellow-robed angel with pale wings touching the head of a kneeling man in dark clothing.

Jesus in Gethsemane

1917

Child amidst Flowers

1927

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

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