Edmund Schaefer

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Edmund Schaefer (born June 9, 1880 in Bremen , † November 24, 1959 in Unterwössen near Munich), who later also signed as Schaefer-Osterhold , was a graphic artist, painter and professor at art colleges.

Life

From 1897 to 1907 Schaefer trained at the arts and crafts schools in Stuttgart and Munich, was a student of Friedrich von Keller at the Stuttgart Art Academy and of Carl Bantzer in Dresden . Around 1909 he was a teacher at the Academy in Kassel, but lived mainly in Worpswede , around 1911 probably in Bremen, and also made long trips to Paris and East Asia. In 1913 he became a teacher at the Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts , was a professor there in 1921 and probably stayed there even after it was integrated into the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts (1924–1939). After the Second World War he lived in Agg near Marquartstein (Upper Bavaria). His collection of 19th century wooden toys that are noteworthy for folklore was donated to the Focke Museum in Bremen.

Edmund Schaefer was a member of the German Association of Artists .

He was a cousin of Paula Modersohn-Becker .

plant

His earliest works, such as the portfolio with 10 lithographs from “Alt-Bremen” from 1909, with their reduced means of expression and their delicate, tonal colors, are among his most convincing creations from today's perspective. A series of eight wood engravings, titled Stories from the Orient , was created around 1920. After the Second World War he turned more to painting, and his formal language has since devoted himself mainly to religious subjects and southern landscapes. In 1958 he designed an altar wall in the Erlöserkirche Marquartstein (painted over in 1987). The rest of his artistic work, especially his late period, is scattered; the Kunsthalle Bremen (graphics, two paintings) and the Focke-Museum Bremen (early graphics) own some of his works.

literature

Heinrich Albert: Edmund Schaefer . In: Lower Saxony . Year 1911 (Vol. 17), pp. 442–446.

Single receipts

  1. ^ Edmund Schaefer-Osterhold 1880 Bremen - Marquartstein 1959 [1]
  2. ^ According to letter from E. Schaefer to Miss N., October 5, 1959, Focke-Museum Bremen
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Schaefer, Edmund ( Memento from February 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schaefer, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaefer-Osterhold, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, painter, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1959
Place of death Unterwössen near Munich