Christian Rohlfs
was a German painter,
who died in 1938,
as WWII was beginning.
I painted his floral country house
scene "Houses in Weimar"
with Microsoft Paint,
on a Washington DC Public
Library computer.
Unlike most of my works,
I did not begin with a pencil
drawing.
Instead, I sketched the outline
with MS Paint, and mouse
painted over that.
The initial sketch took 40 minutes, the completed work
took 4 hours.
Chuck
Wiki:
He was born in Groß Niendorf, Kreis Segeberg in Prussia. He took up painting as a teenager while convalescing from an infection that was eventually to lead to the amputation of a leg in 1874.
In 1937 the Nazis expelled him from the Prussian Academy of Arts, condemned his work as degenerate, and removed his works from public collections. Seventeen of his paintings were exhibited in the Degenerate Art Exhibition in 1937. He died in Hagen, Westfalia, on 8 January 1938.
(November 22, 1849
- January 8, 1938)
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