Alfred Schmidt (painter, 1858)
Alfred Michael Roedsted Schmidt (born May 3, 1858 in Horsens , † April 4, 1938 in Hellerup ) was a Danish draftsman , caricaturist and painter .
Even as a child, Alfred Schmidt showed his talent for drawing, and when he was 15, his father sent him to take drawing lessons with the painter Frederik Ferdinand Helsted . From 1874 to 1882 he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Art , among his teachers were Julius Exner and Jørgen Roed . He worked as an apprentice painter for Carl Thomsen . Roed recommended that he work not as a painter, but as a draftsman. In the 1870s he began contributing to satirical magazines.
In 1880 Schmidt got a permanent job at the Danish satirical magazine Punch (not identical to the English Punch ), as the successor to the draftsman Hans Tegner . His caricatures there were not signed, but he published them in book form in 1895 as the Alfred Schmidt Album . He supplied drawings to the Munich newspaper Fliegende Blätter , for which Wilhelm Busch worked, among others . Few of his paintings have survived, but he drew book covers and illustrations as well as postcards. He was a lover of dachshunds , which often appear on his drawings.
Schmidt found his typical style of naturalism and art nouveau after he had started to draw for the magazine Blæksprutten ( Krake ) in 1889 and for the weekly Klods-Hans , which he co-founded and of which he became editor-in-chief. He developed a great ingenuity in the satirical and humorous consideration of politics, society and culture of his time, in the "good-natured, somewhat naive form of Danish humor". One of his favorite “victims” was Danish Prime Minister Jens Christian Christensen .
Caricature of the Danish Prime Minister Jens Christian Christensen
Advertising poster for the Tivoli in Copenhagen
Web links
- Works by Alfred Schmidt. In: piaper.dk. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs kunstnerleksikon. In: kulturarv.dk. Retrieved January 26, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Alfred_Schmidt. In: piaper.dk. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Kristian Hvidt: Alfred Schmidt. In: The Danske store. Retrieved January 26, 2017 (Danish).
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SURNAME | Schmidt, Alfred |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Alfred Michael Roedsted |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish painter and draftsman |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1858 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Horsens |
DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1938 |
Place of death | Hellerup |