Donated by Jutta Fischer (Herrmann) Anderson in 2004, the Rolf-Dieter Herrmann Collection consists of ten woodcuts illustrating the Orpheus story by Gerhard Marcks. The portfolio was donated in memory of Jutta's late husband, Rolf-Dieter Herrmann. This portfolio, called the Series "A" portfolio, was commercially created in 150 copies in 1948. The Luther College Fine Arts Collection may be the largest repository of Gerhard Marcks works in the United States.

Information on Rolf-Dieter Herrmann
Rolf-Dieter Herrmann was born in 1934 in Dortmund, Germany. He studied philosophy and art history at universities in Cologne and Heidelberg, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1962 from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. His specialties were aesthetics, phenomenology, existentialism, and history of philosophy. Herrmann taught at the Paedagogische Hochschule in Dortmund, Germany, at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina, and was professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, from 1969 until his death in 1978. He was the author of several books and articles and lectured at national and international conferences. He emigrated to the United States in 1968 and became an American citizen in 1973. Hermann was married to the former Jutta Ilse Fischer in 1964. They adopted infants Lars Gunnar (1970) and Niels Holger (1973).