Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (artist)

Like other German modernists, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff had little interest in copying the outward appearance of things: that job was better left to photographers. Art was too serious to merely imitate nature-or even to honor tradition. With all the passion of youth, the artist insisted he was moved only by “an inexplicable yearning to lay hold of what I see and feel and then to find the most direct expression possible for such experience.”