Gustav Schopf

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Gustav Schopf (born January 23, 1899 in Gerlingen , † October 21, 1987 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter .

Schopf grew up in Gerlingen and attended grammar school there, where his artistic talent was discovered. In 1919, Schopf returned to Stuttgart seriously wounded from the war, where he began studying law at the University of Tübingen in 1921 and moved to Munich after two semesters. There he got in touch with the art academy. In 1924 he began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . Schopf was a master student of Robert Breyer . Over many decades he created a large number of railway images. Schopf became a founding member of the Stuttgart New Secession in 1929 together with Manfred Henninger , Alfred Lehmann , Manfred Pahl and Wilhelm Geyer . He worked and lived in Stuttgart. Schopf's works are among other things in an art collection in the city museum of the city of Ditzingen.

literature

  • Rainer Zimmermann : The Art of the Lost Generation. German expressive realism painting from 1925 to 1975. Econ, Düsseldorf, Vienna, 1980 ISBN 3-430-19961-1 , p. 386.
  • Heinz Spielmann, Thomas Gädeke: Robert Breyer and the Berlin Secession. in: Rolf Deyhle Collection, Vol. 1 .. Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schleswig, 1992, p. 45.
  • Wendelin Renn, Horst Zimmermann, Andreas Zoller, Albertinum (Dresden, Germany): Southwest German art between tradition and modernity: 1914 to 1945; [19. June to August 29, 1993, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Albertinum…]. Thorbecke Jan Verlag, Sigmaringen, 1993 ISBN 3-799-50396-X , p. 70.
  • Martin Papenbrock : Degenerate art, exile art, resistance art in West German exhibitions after 1945: a commented bibliography. in: Writings of the Guernica Society, 3rd .. VDG, publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar, 1996 ISBN 3-932-12409-X , p. 527.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ditzingen.de/dcm/imagine/frontend/index.php3?sid=&tc=html&la=RwKio1NSwXvPdhxf&page=news/old_news/detail&news_id=A130835875111721  ( page no longer available , searching web archives )  Info: The Link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ditzingen.de  
personal data
SURNAME Schopf, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerlingen
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1987
Place of death Stuttgart