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"The girl from Kowno" (Mädchen aus Kowno) is a 1918 woodcut by German artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. It was created as part of the portfolio "Ten Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff" and is a key work of the German Expressionist movement, known for its stark, angular style and link to the inspiration by African Art. Like many of his contemporaries in the Brücke group, he was influenced by tribal art he saw at the Dresden Museum of Ethnography, which he felt offered a more authentic and pure form of artistic expression. The work is characterized by strong, angular lines and a dramatic contrast between black and white to create an intense expressin Cf. The print, which depicts a stylized portrait of a young woman with the features of a Gabon mask, is held in various museum collections worldwide, such as the Brücke-Museum in Berlin, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo