Alfred Schmidt (painter, 1858)

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Alfred Schmidt (around 1930)

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 .

  • Bravo Zola! (1898)

  • Caricature of the Danish Prime Minister Jens Christian Christensen

  • Workers and Soldiers Council (1917)

  • Cover of a Danish children's book

  • Advertising poster for the Tivoli in Copenhagen

Web links

Commons : Alfred Schmidt (caricaturist)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kunstindeks Danmark & ​​Weilbachs kunstnerleksikon. In: kulturarv.dk. Retrieved January 26, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Alfred_Schmidt. In: piaper.dk. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c Kristian Hvidt: Alfred Schmidt. In: The Danske store. Retrieved January 26, 2017 (Danish).
personal data
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