Christian Rohlfs belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Christian Rohlfs as German artist (1849-1938).
Christian Rohlfs was born at Groß Niendorf in 1849. His recorded nationality is German Reich.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, draftsperson and sculptor.
His recorded movement is expressionism.
Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in German Reich shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Christian Rohlfs died in 1938, aged 89. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Expressionism
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