Christian Rohlfs: “Roman Builders”, Oil on Canvas, 1867, Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany
Christian Rohlfs was a German painter, one of the important representatives of German expressionism. Initially he painted large-scale landscapes, working through a variety of academic, naturalist, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist styles. Meetings with Edvard Munch and Emil Nolde and the experience of seeing the works of Vincent van Gogh inspired him to move towards the expressionist style, in which he would work for the rest of his career.
In 1929 the town of Hagen opened a Christian Rohlfs Museum. In 1937 the Nazis expelled him from the Prussian Academy of Arts, condemned his work as degenerate, and removed his works from public collections.
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