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Christian ROHLFS  -  1849-1938      

Christian Rohlfs was born as the son of a farmer's family. Due to a knee injury was not capable to become a farmer and his parents sent him to a highschool. Later he studies at an art school in Weimar in Germany. Christian Rohlfs is considered as a painter and printmaker of the Expressionist movement. In 1927 he moved to Switzerland for medical reasons. He died in 1938 - at that time banned by Nazi Germany as an "entarteter Künstler" (degenerated artist).

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Literature sources used for artist biographies:

• Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
• Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
• Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
• Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
• Annual CWAJ catalogs