Emil Schill

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Emil Schill (born February 3, 1870 in Basel , † January 11, 1958 in Kerns ) was a Swiss painter .

Life

Emil Schill was born in Basel as the fifth of six children. His ancestors came from Württemberg. His father, a wealthy Basel merchant, supported him in his desire to become a painter. In secondary school until he passed his Abitur in 1888, Fritz Schider was his drawing teacher and for two semesters he attended lectures on art history with Jacob Burckhardt .

From 1889 to 1893 he studied at the art school in Karlsruhe with Ernst Schurth, Theodor Poeckh and above all Caspar Ritter At the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , Schill studied with Paul Hoecker from 1893 to 1894 . 1895-1896 he attended the Académie Julian in Paris, where Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury were his teachers.

In 1896 Schill settled back in his hometown Basel and was able to take over Wilhelm Balmer's studio on Alemannengasse . In the Basler Künstlergesellschaft, of which he was president from 1899 to 1901, he met a. a. with Wilhelm Balmer, Fritz Mock, Margaretha Barth-Visscher van Gaasbeck, Pierre Trüdinger and Cuno Amiet .

For the saffron guild in Basel, Schill painted a mural from the so-called saffron war of 1374 in 1902 and in 1903 he was commissioned to produce the walls and ceiling of the Grand Council Chamber and various wall paintings in the Basel town hall . In the wall paintings he captured many historical and living Basel personalities.

In 1911 Schill moved to Kerns in Obwalden and in 1903 married Rosa Meyer with whom he had two daughters. Here he received his friends and sponsors in his own studio and home. In the 1950s, Schill was granted honorary state rights and in 1955 he became an honorary citizen of Kerns.

Schill was considered sociable. He was friends with Giovanni Giacometti , Arnold Böcklin , Emil Beurmann , Albert Welti , Fritz Voellmy , Burkhard Mangold , Max Leu , Karl Dick, Hans Frei, Fritz Schider and Franz Baur. Schill spent many years painting in the Jura in Basel. The Basel area is known for its picturesque Jura landscape in the Upper Basel area. The obituary for Schill, written by his artist friend Karl Dick (1884–1967), appeared in the Basler Stadtbuch in 1959 .

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Around 1905/10, Schill was considered one of the most important artists in Switzerland. He was represented in all major Swiss exhibitions. He is considered a late impressionist and one of the most outstanding landscape painters at the transition to modernism .

After moving to Obwalden, his themes changed from the late Impressionist Jura landscapes to the pre-Alpine, often harsh Obwalden landscape. His late work after 1940 is characterized by impressive terrain and cloud images. They were preceded by a long series of photographic studies painted on wood.

The main works of Emil Schill are:

His landscape paintings and portraits can be found in the art museums of Lausanne, Chur, Basel, Zurich and Solothurn and in many rooms in his adopted home of Kerns.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Markus Britschgi and Doris Fässler : Emil Schill 1870–1958. Monographs by a late impressionist. Diopter Verlag, Lucerne 1994, ISBN 3-905198-16-9 .
  • Emil Schill, 1870–1958 , commemorative exhibition on the 25th anniversary of his death: Catalog for the exhibition in the old armory in Landenberg, Sarnen, October 22 - November 13, 1983, Heinrich Federer Foundation, Sarnen.
  • Fritz Schmalenbach : About some of Emil Schill's pictures. In: Architecture and Art. Vol. 27, No. 6, 1940, pp. 145-148.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Fine Arts, Munich: Emil Schill, in the register book 1884–1920. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ The Basler Künstlergesellschaft ( Memento from December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) History
  3. ↑ Sikart: Mural from 1902, The Saffron War of 1374. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Swiss engineer and architect: The restoration of the Basel town hall. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Honorary granting of land rights to Emil Schill, painter, Kerns , entry in the Obwalden State Archives
  6. ↑ Kerns artist ( Memento from October 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Page on the website of the Kerns municipality
  7. ^ Karl Dick: Obituary for Emil Schill. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
  8. ^ Special exhibition "Going into the Landscape" , on the website of the Museum Brother Klaus Sachseln, accessed on May 21, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Schill, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1958
Place of death Kerns