Alfred Hess
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Alfred Hess was a German Jewish industrialist and art collector.
Hess's Villa in Erfurt
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a German expressionist painter and printmaker; he was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke.
Alfred Hess
…claims for restitution for looted artworks and forced sales. Several works, such as Berlin Street Scene (1913) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Nude by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, have been returned to his granddaughter and heir, Anita Halpin, and subsequently sold; the former sold at auction for £20.5 million to the Neue Galerie…
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Woman with a Bag by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1915)
Schmidt-Rottluff, Seehofsallee in Sierksdorf, date unknown; from poster on an information table in Chemnitz
Kirchner, Artist Community, (1926/27) oil on canvas; painted after the Die Brücke years. (Schmidt-Rottluff on the right, with glasses.)