Georg Schuster-Woldan

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Georg Eberhard Wolfgang Schuster-Woldan (born December 7, 1864 in Nimptsch , Lower Silesia , † March 31, 1933 in St. Georgen ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Schuster-Woldan was the son of Heinrich Schuster . His younger brother was the painter Raffael Schuster-Woldan . From 1872 to 1876 he attended the public school in Striegau . Since 1876 he was a student of the Liegnitzer Gymnasium, where he passed his Abitur in 1883. He initially received his artistic training at the Stuttgart Art Academy . In 1885 his studies were interrupted by the military service he did as a one-year volunteer in the Bavarian Army . He then continued his studies at the private school of the painter Frank Kirchbach in Munich, whom he followed, together with his brother Raffael, to the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main .

Creating art

After completing his studies, he lived and worked in Munich, where he was a member of the board of the Luitpold Group and ran a private painting school in his studio in Schwabing . From 1900 to 1906 Georg Schuster-Woldan lived at Ainmillerstraße 26, his studio was at Franz-Josef-Straße 14. After the end of the First World War , in which he had participated as an officer ( Rittmeister ), he moved in with his second Mrs. Dora to St. Georgen near Dießen am Ammersee . He became known as a painter of large-format legend and fairy tale pictures. The paintings The Faithful Eckart , The Man Eater , The Pied Piper or Nicholas and the Christ Child received great attention at exhibitions. In his later work he developed into a sought-after portrait of children and women. The art magazine Jugend published some portraits on its title pages. At the major art exhibitions in the Glaspalast (Munich) , his works were among the most important exhibits of the Luitpold Group.

family

Schuster-Woldan was married twice

  • 1891 with Carolina Regina (née Schultheiss, born November 3, 1869 in Munich; † October 14, 1938 in Murnau ), daughter of the engraver Albrecht Fürchtegott Schultheiss , who was her second marriage to the painter Conrad Hommel .
    • Gertrud (1892–1983) became a violinist. She studied with Carl Flesch and Henri Marteau and lived as a music professor in Munich.
    • Kurt (1893–1979), took up the officer career and was promoted to major general in 1943 .
    • Hertha (1895–1997) ⚭ 1920 Theodor Geiger . The marriage ended in divorce in 1936.
  • with the painter Dora (born Daume, born January 18, 1884 in Insterburg , † 1971)
    • Wolfgang (1907-1984)
    • Gerhard (1918-1991).

Schuster-Woldan was buried in Munich's north cemetery.

Honors

Works

  • The fairy tale of the man eater ( Rübezahl )

  • Girl with doll

  • Elisabeth (detail)

  • Girl with Rabbit (cover of Jugend magazine )

  • Portrait of Mrs. Biagosch

literature

Web links

Commons : Georg Schuster-Woldan  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At the beginning of his work as a painter he chose the pseudonym of his father as his artist name and from then on signed his paintings with Schuster-Woldan . In 1917 he had this double name officially registered for himself and his descendants (Royal Ministry of the Interior, No. 5638, Munich, August 14, 1917 and Royal Police Office Munich II, No. 4378, August 28, 1917).
personal data
SURNAME Schuster-Woldan, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuster-Woldan, Georg Eberhardt Wolfgang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Nimptsch , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1933
Place of death St. Georgen near Dießen am Ammersee