Christian Rohlfs
1959; Volume: 18; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/15436322.1959.11465639
ISSN2325-5412
Autores ResumoGerman expressionism is commonly regarded as a movement which was started by young men who had little or no training in the visual arts. Still, there existed one shining exception—a pioneer in expressionism who was neither an enthusiastic youth nor an artist without thorough academic training. His name is Christian Rohlfs.Rohlfs, one year younger than Gauguin, and three years the senior of Van Gogh, actually lived until 1938, long enough to be our contemporary. In fact, Rohlfs' productive life covered a span of nearly three generations. He was born in 1849 on a small peat farm in north Germany, not far from the Danish border. This is the region where eighteen years later the painter Emil Nolde, and twenty-one years later the sculptor Ernst Barlach were born.
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