Karl Peter Rohl - Artist Info

About Karl Peter Rohl

Name variants

Karl Peter Ra-hl, Peter Karl Rohl
  • Biography

    Karl Peter Röhl (1890–1975) belongs to the generation of artists who were under the influence of the ‘Lebensreform’ [life reform] movement and the emergence of modernism in the arts. They wanted to develop their utopian visions of a ‘new man’ after the trauma of World War I.

    He was a member of the artists’ group centered around Molzahn, and joined Herwarth Walden’s ‘Sturm’ circle in Berlin. Later becoming an influential ‘young master’ of the early Bauhaus and finally a member of the De Stijl group led by Theo van Doesburg in Weimar – and, as such, he was in touch with the focal points of the avant-garde in the 1920s.

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