Felix Schwormstädt

Felix Schwormstädt (self-portrait, 1915)

Felix Schwormstädt (born September 16, 1870 in Hamburg , † February 18, 1938 in Locarno , Switzerland ) was a German painter , draftsman and illustrator . He made a name for himself as a marine painter .

Life

Schwormstädt studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . The pupil of Carl von Marrs began his artistic career as a book illustrator for the Paul List Verlag in Leipzig (7 full pictures of the novel “Renata” 1913 by Julius Wolff). He worked as a graphic designer for Hapag and Norddeutscher Lloyd before becoming a leading press illustrator for the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung during the First World War . Around 1920 he worked as a professor at the Bauhaus in Weimar and again increasingly for the North German Lloyd.

Lars U. Scholl: Felix Schwormstädt 1870-1938. Painter, press draftsman, illustrator . Koehler Verlag, Herford 1990, ISBN 3-7822-0507-3

Assassination attempt in Sarajevo . Reproduced from an illustration for the Leipziger Illustrirte Zeitung (1914)
Loading a torpedo tube , WWI
Opening ceremony in the dome reading room in 1914 in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II , keynote speaker Adolf von Harnack as general director

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personal data
SURNAME	Schwormstädt, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, draftsman and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	February 18, 1938
Place of death	Locarno , Switzerland