Karli Sohn-Rethel

Carl Ernst "Karli" Sohn-Rethel (1882 – 1966)[1] German Modernist painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting art movement.

[3][better source needed] After he completed his training, he traveled to Rome to meet up with his brother Otto, his brother-in-law Werner Heuser, and artists Karl Hofer, Hermann Haller and Maurice Sterne.

[7] From October 1912 to May 1914, Sohn-Rethel traveled and painted with his friend Maurice Sterne, they visited Tunis, Tunisia; Varanasi, India; Mandalay, Burma; Java, Indonesia; and Bali.

[3] After the end of World War I, he moved in 1920–1921 to Positano, Italy and socialized with Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Ernst Bloch, and Alfred Kantorowicz.

[11] He stayed with his painter friend Kurt Craemer in Positano, Italy, a city he had visited earlier in 1920.

[3] His work is in various public museum collections including Provincial Art Gallery of Salerno,[13] among others.