Wolf Röhricht

German painter and graphic artist Wolf Röhricht first studied law and graduated with a doctorate. He then began to study art and traveled to Paris, where he continued his studies at the Académie Julian. Back in Berlin he joined the Free Secession and became very successful in the 1920s. As an expressionist, or better as an expressive realist, he was considered “degenerate” during the Nazi regime, and his works were removed from museums, but he was never troubled by the Nazis. As late as 1938, he received a scholarship for the Villa Massimo in Roma. During the last days of World War II in 1945 most of his works were lost.

After the war, Röhricht first went to Garmisch-Partenkirchen and then worked in München. His work focused on industry representations, portraits, and landscapes, and he distinguished himself mainly by his virtuoso watercolor wet-in-wet technique.