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Meetings with Edvard Munch and Emil Nolde and the experience of seeing the works of Vincent van Gogh inspired him to move towards the expressionist style, in which he would work for the rest of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1908, at the age of 60, he made his first prints after seeing an exhibition of works by the expressionist group Die Brücke. He went on to make 185 in total, almost all woodcuts or linocuts. He lived in Munich and the Tyrol in 1910-12, before returning to Hagen. The outbreak of World War I worried Rohlfs such, that for some time he felt unable to paint. In rare instances, he experimented with heavily hand-colouring his prints, often well after they were made, as in his 1919 recolouring of the prior year's Der Gefangene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn May 1922 he attended the International Congress of Progressive Artists and signed the \"Founding Proclamation of the Union of Progressive International Artists\". 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his career he working through a variety of academic, naturalist, impressionist, and Post-Impressionist styles. He has often been viewed as one of the first Expressionists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe died in Hagen, Westfalia, on 8 January 1938. After his death, the German Nazi authorities prohibited the sale of his paintings. 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