Emil Schmid (painter, 1891)

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Emil Schmid (born July 17, 1891 in Heiden , Ausserrhoden; died November 24, 1978 there) was a Swiss painter , portraitist and etcher . He lived most of his work in his Appenzell homeland.

Life

Emil Schmid, son of a pastry chef from Heiden, recognized his talent for drawing and art early on. In order to obtain a professional qualification, he went to the St. Gallen Trade Museum from 1907 to 1911, where he trained as an embroidery draftsman. Then, on the advice of Hans Beat Wieland, he went to Munich to the private drawing institute of Hermann Gröber and was accepted into the art academy after a year . The most important teacher there was the professor of etching, Peter Halm , while the teachers there “did not convince” him and he remained “strangely untouched” by Impressionism.

At the beginning of the First World War, Schmid returned to his homeland and opened a studio. After initial difficulties, after the end of the war he gained a reputation as an excellent portrait painter , who portrayed the extra-Rhodian governors and many Thurgau regional presidents. In 1916 he exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zurich and the same year at the Swiss Art Association. He probably came into contact with the circle of artists around the composer Heinrich von Herzogenberg, who had died earlier, and in 1920 acquired the "Abendroth" house of the Berlin singing teacher Breiderhoff, which he lived in until his death and in which he added his studio in 1938. In addition to the portraits, including numerous children's pictures, he created a large oeuvre as a landscape painter and countless etchings from his homeland.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NN: Emil Schmid (1891–1978) painter. Museum Heiden, accessed November 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Peter Müller: Emil Schmid, Heiden. (1891-1978). In: Appenzellian yearbooks. Appenzellische Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft, 1978, pp. 103-104 , accessed on November 25, 2019 .
  3. ^ A. Bosshard: Schmid, Emil. In: Swiss artist lexicon. 1917, p. 624 , accessed on October 25, 2019 (Vol. 4 Supplement A – Z (1917)).
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter, portraitist and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiden , Ausserrhoden
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1978
Place of death Heiden , Ausserrhoden