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==Early life and education== [[File:Christian Rohlfs - Abstraction (the Blue Mountain) - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|180px|''Abstraction (the Blue Mountain)'' (1912)]] He was born in [[Groร Niendorf (Holstein)|Groร Niendorf]], [[Kreis Segeberg]] in [[Prussia]]. He took up painting as a teenager while convalescing from an infection<ref name=met/> that was eventually to lead to the amputation of a leg in 1874.<ref name=germany>{{cite book |title=German Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1905 1985|type=Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London|chapter=Christian Rohlfs|year=1985 |publisher= Royal Academy of Arts/ Prestel Verlag |location= London|pages=497โ8}}</ref> He began his formal artistic education in Berlin,<ref name=germany/> before transferring, in 1870, to the Weimar Academy.<ref name=met/>
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