Fritz Schider

Fritz Schider (born February 13, 1846 in Salzburg , † March 15, 1907 in Basel ; occasionally Fritz Schieder ) was an Austrian painter and etcher .

The Chinese Tower in Munich (1873)

Life

Fritz Schider was born in Salzburg in 1846 as the son of a medium-sized manufacturer. Because the father was opposed to an artistic career for his son, Schider enrolled at the Bergakademie Leoben . In 1865, motivated by his friend Hans Makart , he enrolled at the Imperial and Royal Academy of United Fine Arts in Vienna and in December 1866 moved to the Royal Art Academy in Munich . From 1868 to 1873 he studied with Alexander von Wagner and Arthur von Ramberg .

Fritz Schider, grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery

In Munich he was influenced by Wilhelm Leibl and joined the Leibl circle . In addition to Leibl, Schider also admired Theodor Alt and especially the early works of Albert von Keller . In 1873 Schider completed his painting The Chinese Tower of Munich , which is now considered one of his main works. In 1876 Schider accepted a call from the Society for the Promotion of the Good and the Charitable in Basel and from then on taught as a lecturer at the company's own drawing and modeling school. In Basel u. a. Burkhard Mangold , Wilhelm Balmer , Max Buri , Numa Donzé , Max Leu , Carl Burckhardt and Fritz Voellmy were his students. Schider was an employee of Julius Kollmann and helped him to produce the plastic anatomy for artists . Schider himself created a large anatomy atlas entitled Plastic-anatomical studies for academies, arts and crafts schools and for self-teaching , which appeared in the period from 1891 to 1894.

In 1895 he received citizenship in Basel. In 1896 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel for his scientific achievements .

In 1877 Schider married Regina Sophie Karoline "Lina" Kirchdorffer (1854–1927), a niece of his colleague Leibl. An oil painting of his wife, which shows her life-size sitting in an armchair in the traditional costume of the Markgräflerland , is now in the possession of the Residenzgalerie Salzburg .

In 1904 an article by Adolf Vögtlin about Schnider's life and work appeared in the Swiss illustrated magazine . In 1907 Albrecht Mayer was his successor at the trade school .

Fritz Schider died in Basel at the age of 61 and found his final resting place in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery .

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Fritz Schider's painterly and graphic work includes landscapes, interiors, still lifes, genre scenes and portraits. His painterly oeuvre is characterized by soft, clayey, relaxed painting in a sketchy manner. The light is of great importance as a means of expression, objects recede and dissolve. His open-air paintings from the 1870s are among the most progressive achievements in Munich painting of that time. His variants of the Chinese Tower in Munich, created in 1873, are characterized by an atmospheric mood with which Schider approaches Impressionism . The time in Basel was then characterized by teaching, so that Schider did less than that. With the turn to scientific-anatomical illustration, the painterly works became more precise, which led to an increasingly realistic understanding and attention to detail. Only long stays in Italy towards the end of the 1890s did the style of the Munich years return.

literature

Adolf Vögtlin : Fritz Schnider In: Switzerland , Vol. 8, 1904, pp. 441–447.
Hermann Uhde-Bernays : Munich landscapers in the 19th century. Delphin-Verlag, Munich 1921.
Michael Petzet : Wilhelm Leibl and his circle. Prestel, Stuttgart 1974.
Horst Ludwig: Schider, Fritz . In: Horst Ludwig (Hrsg.): Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst . Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 4: Saffer – Zwengauer . Bruckmann, Munich 1983, pp. 33, 37

Web links

Commons : Fritz Schider - Collection of Images

Literature by and about Fritz Schider in the catalog of the German National Library
Tapan Bhattacharya: Schider, Fritz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Paola von Wyss-Giacosa: Schider, Fritz. In: Sikart (status: 1998), accessed on November 13, 2018.
Fritz Schider on artnet

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Fritz Schider . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 101, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023267-7 , p. 472.
↑ 02294 Friedrich Schider, Matriculation Book 1841-1884 , Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on August 12, 2020
^ Fritz Schider . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 56 .
↑ Inv. No. 249
^ Adolf Voegtlin: Fritz Schnider. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schider, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schieder, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 13, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH	March 15, 1907
Place of death	Basel

[akl-1] Fritz Schider . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 101, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023267-7 , p. 472.

[2] 02294 Friedrich Schider, Matriculation Book 1841-1884 , Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on August 12, 2020

[ThB-3] Fritz Schider . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 56 .

[4] Inv. No. 249

[5] Adolf Voegtlin: Fritz Schnider. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .