December 1, 1884

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (December 1, 1884 to August 10, 1976) was a German artist, an adherent of the Expressionist movement, and achieved the distinction by his 50's of membership in the Prussian Academy of Arts, (1931.) His printmaking was one medium in which he excelled. Two years later the Nazis removed him from the academy and treated him as others whose art they labeled "degenerate.' . He was finally forbidden to even paint. This man who had fought on the eastern front in World War I, survived, and after the war resumed a position of leadership in the German art world.

Schmidt-Rottluff has at least several wonderful prints of cats.

And here is a 1914 woodcut, a sample of his art: