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Karl Rössing was born in Gmunden in Germany. From 1913 to 1917 Rössing studied at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich, directed by Richard Riemerschmid. Rössing was a member of tDeutscher Werkbund. His first exhibition took place in 1915 in the Graphisches Kabinett Schmidt-Bertsch in Munich. Publications in "Die Furche" and "Deutsche Studentenarbeit in Feld und Heimat" followed in 1916. In 1917 he made his first woodcut and Rössing was commissioned by Emil Kugler to illustrate the "House Tales of the Kugler Children" published in 1920. Woodcut and illustration formed the first mainstay for Rössing. Living in Gmunden after the end of the war, Rössing took part in an exhibition of the New Secession in Munich in 1919, where Rainer Maria Rilke noticed him. Josef August Lux invited him to work on “Art and Culture Council”. In 1921 Rössing participated with Ernst Barlach, George Grosz, Alfred Kubin and Käthe Kollwitz in the international black and white exhibition of the artists' association "Der Wassermann" and received the silver medal of the Republic of Austria. In the same year, Rössing took over the book trade and graphics department at the Folkwang School in Essen. In 1931 Rössing lost his position in Essen and moved to Linz with his wife. In 1939 he became a tenured professor at the State Academy for Art Education in Berlin. Rössing's apartment was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1944, and he lost numerous works of art and books. He was drafted and taken prisoner. In 1947 Rössing became a professor for life at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, where he took over the area of ​​free graphics and illustration. He became a member of the German Association of Artists, the "Table of 13" and the international woodcutters' association XYLON; in Austria he and his wife Erika were members of the artist association MAERZ. Around 1950, Rössing switched from woodcut to linocut. In 1977 the Stuttgart Academy showed a retrospective on Rössing's 80th birthday. In the same year his wife died; Rössing moved to relatives in Marchtrenk, where he created a large number of oil paintings and drawings.
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