Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

German · 1884–1976 · Painter, Printmaker

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a German expressionist painter and printmaker; he was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke. (Wikipedia)

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804lots offered2001–2026years recorded98%sold (782)$17.7kSign up free to seemedian price

Record prices

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Lesende (Else Lasker-Schüler)Ketterer Kunst · Dec 2022€4,060,000≈ $4,286,954≈ £3,489,584Sign up to see
Watt bei EbbeGrisebach · Nov 2013€2,720,000≈ $3,697,024≈ £2,263,392Sign up to see
Rote DüneKetterer Kunst · Dec 2022€1,945,000≈ $2,053,726≈ £1,671,734Sign up to see

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

Average price

$61.8kSign up free to see

median $17.7kfree account

High

$4.3MSign up free to see

auction record in database

Lots sold

782

of 801 offered · 2001–2026

Sell-through

98%

sold ÷ offered

Price trend

Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

Showing 561 of 782 priced sales (evenly sampled; every year’s high and low included). Medians use all sales.

1 lot(s) catalogued with a qualifier (e.g. “attributed to”, “after”, “circle of”) are listed in the results but excluded from these statistics.

3 lot(s) offered at auction whose result the house did not publish are listed under “Also offered” on the results tab and excluded from these statistics.

By medium

Medium	Offered	Sold	Sell-through	Average	Median	High
Paintings	58	58	100%	$506kSign up	$291kSign up	$4.3MSign up
Oil	58	58	100%	$506kSign up	$291kSign up	$4.3MSign up
Works on paper	421	412	98%	$37.8kSign up	$26.9kSign up	$404kSign up
Watercolor	275	269	98%	$48kSign up	$35.5kSign up	$404kSign up
Gouache	3	3	100%	$56.2kSign up	$50.1kSign up	$113kSign up
Pastel	5	5	100%	$21.5kSign up	$22.7kSign up	$26.3kSign up
Drawing	137	134	98%	$17.6kSign up	$13.7kSign up	$139kSign up
Prints & multiples	308	298	97%	$10.4kSign up	$7.3kSign up	$70.4kSign up
Etching	17	17	100%	$5.5kSign up	$4.1kSign up	$17.7kSign up
Drypoint	6	4	67%	$8.2kSign up	$8.1kSign up	$10.5kSign up
Lithograph	34	32	94%	$9kSign up	$3.7kSign up	$51.2kSign up
Woodcut / linocut	211	205	97%	$11.4kSign up	$8.7kSign up	$70.4kSign up
Print (other)	40	40	100%	$8.2kSign up	$7.3kSign up	$24.3kSign up
Sculpture	4	4	100%	$50.6kSign up	$10.6kSign up	$174kSign up
Other	10	10	100%	$8kSign up	$5.3kSign up	$22.5kSign up

Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

Year	Offered	Sold	Median
2026	27	26	$16.2kSign up
2025	41	41	$17.4kSign up
2024	41	40	$22.5kSign up
2023	52	50	$24.1kSign up
2022	44	43	$33.7kSign up
2021	15	15	$25.4kSign up
2020	27	26	$24.6kSign up
2019	33	31	$25.1kSign up
2018	33	32	$17kSign up
2017	41	39	$13.3kSign up
2016	49	46	$11.1kSign up
2015	25	24	$14.9kSign up
2014	39	38	$19.6kSign up
2013	57	56	$14.3kSign up
2012	27	27	$31.6kSign up
2011	39	39	$34.8kSign up
2010	32	30	$13.4kSign up
2009	28	28	$18.6kSign up
2008	39	39	$18.7kSign up
2007	34	34	$15.9kSign up
2006	15	15	$15.1kSign up
2005	16	16	$8.4kSign up
2004	19	19	$6.3kSign up
2003	12	12	$9.8kSign up
2002	15	15	$7.7kSign up
2001	1	1	$3.1kSign up