Christian Schad Archive
The Christian Schad Archive in Miesbach is a scientific archive that presents and mediates the life and work of the painter Christian Schad in all its breadth. It was founded by Günter A. and Marie-Luise Richter and bought by the city of Miesbach at the end of 2017 . It is affiliated with the Miesbach city archive and should be publicly accessible in the future.
Christian Schad and Miesbach
Christian Schad is one of the world's most important New Objectivity artists . He was born in Miesbach in 1894 , making him the most famous son of his hometown. On his mother's side, Schad came from the wealthy Miesbach-based, wealthy brewery and mine director family Waitzinger - Fohr . While he grew up in Munich and his life took him to important cities such as Zurich , Rome , Vienna and Berlin , Christian Schad always had a close relationship with his place of birth. The family also had a hut in the nearby mountains, where Schad often stayed. In 1974 and 1979, on the initiative of Mayor Hans Schuhbeck, the first solo exhibitions of his works took place in Miesbach. A little later, the city began to buy works by Schad. After Schad's death in 1982, contact with widow Bettina Schad and son Nikolaus Schad remained . One result of this cooperation was the large retrospective in 1999 in the Waitzinger Keller - Kulturzentrum Miesbach, which had opened two years earlier. Most recently, in 2014, a highly acclaimed exhibition of prints and “Schadographs” took place in the Waitzinger cellar.
History of the archive
The Christian Schad Archive was created in 1972 from the close and friendly collaboration between Günter A. and Marie-Luise Richter (Edition GA Richter) and Christian Schad. In 1974 the first large solo exhibition was organized on the 80th birthday of Schad. At the same time, collecting for an artist archive began. The GA Richter edition subsequently published graphic works by Schads and ensured that the artist was rediscovered. The Christian Schad Archive was steadily expanded in the following years and has thus acquired an independent significance for research on Christian Schad. It was acquired by the city of Miesbach at the end of 2017 and opened at its new location in the Miesbach town hall on May 6, 2018. Together with the approximately 150 works of Schad's graphic collection, which is owned by the city as an independent collection, there is a unique treasure trove for researching the artist and person Christian Schad as well as the artistic styles of Dadaism and the magical that influenced him and influenced him Realism.
Duration
The Christian Schad Archive is located as an independent department of the city archive in the town hall of Miesbach. After the inventory has been developed, it should be accessible to the public. The black-and-white documentation of paintings and works on paper rests in eleven boxes, five boxes contain ektachromes of his paintings, partly recordings of images that are no longer accessible, the documentation of his early 1919 Schadographs as photo reproductions, the contact negatives of the prints to the Schadographs by the artist reworked and approved for printing. Since Schad participated in the Dada events in Zurich in 1916 and was also influenced by them, the archive contains a lot of literature on Dada . In particular, pamphlets by his friend and initiator Walter Serner . Correspondence with art historians and authors fills some files. The essays that have already been written, some of which have not been published, also fill other folders. The typescripts of the catalog raisonné, paintings, shadographies, prints and drawings as well as watercolors are documented. A great treasure are the artist's Pesonality photos, pencil sketches, handwritten items, mostly related to his graphic work, written thoughts about art. An attempt at a play (handwritten), six dissertations on Schad (France, Italy, Germany), original magazine title with paintings, published between 1927 and 1942. International auction catalogs showing Schad's pictures with the corresponding results. Dust jackets using harmful paintings, mostly published by Piper-Verlag.
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.merkur.de/lokales/region-miesbach/miesbach-ort29062/erbe-kuenstlers-stadt-miesbach-richt-eigenes-christian-schad-ein-9558525.html
- ↑ http://www.kulturvision-aktuell.de/schad-archiv-stadt-miesbach-2018/
- ^ Press release by Marie-Luise Richter on the Christian Schad archive, December 2017