Adolf Schmidlin
Adolf Schmidlin (born May 20, 1868 in Lahr ; † June 22, 1954 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German painter.
Life
Adolf Schmidlin was the son of an instrument maker whose house at Obertorstrasse 18 in Lahr has had a plaque of honor since 1964. After finishing school in Lahr, he studied from October 1887 to 1892 at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts with Ferdinand Keller , Theodor Poeckh , Caspar Ritter and Ernst Schurth . After that and in 1900 he went to the Academy in Munich for a year and made study trips to Paris, Rome and Berlin.
In 1908 he opened a studio in Freiburg, where he quickly developed into one of the most important contemporary portrait painters in Baden, but also carried out commissioned work in Switzerland, Northern Germany and Holland. He painted the Grand Dukes of Baden Friedrich I and Friedrich II , Heinrich Hansjakob , Archbishop Conrad Gröber and the Tübingen University Chancellor August Hegler .
Posthumous reception
In addition to his solid craftsmanship, critics admired his simple, warm realism; that is, that he did not follow the expressionist currents of contemporary art. There were only a few exhibitions, e.g. B. 1962 in Lahr with about 100 pictures. His paintings hang today, for example. B. in the Freiburg Augustinermuseum , in the Lahr city museum, in the Tübingen professors' gallery . and in the Stauffenberg memorial in the Stauffenberg Castle Albstadt-Lautlingen.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Schmidlin, Adolf. Badische Zeitung (Author abbreviation: tmi) from October 9, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidlin, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lahr |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1954 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |