Hans Schadow

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Hans Schadow

Hans Schadow (born January 8, 1862 in Berlin , † October 16, 1924 Bad Driburg , Westphalia ) was a German portrait painter .

Life

Schadow, great-great-nephew of Johann Gottfried Schadow , was the second child of the banker and private scholar Gustav Schadow and Anna Marie Therese Philipp. He was the nephew and student of Reinhold Begas , who in turn was the godchild of Johann Gottfried Schadow. He started studying at the Berlin Art Academy in 1879 at the age of 17 . He then studied from 1884 at the Academy in Munich with Bruno Piglhein , Franz von Lenbach , Johann Herterich and Paul Nauen . Now he moved abroad and from 1890 he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris with Tony Robert-Fleury and William Adolphe Bouguereau . After a short time he went to Dordrecht in Holland , from there to London in 1891 , where he stayed until 1896. He then lived in Spain , Sweden , Russia and Turkey for about a year , and from 1907 in Egypt . In between he regularly visited Berlin, Munich and Venice to take part in exhibitions.

In 1914 he volunteered for the First World War and was initially stationed in Flanders . In 1915 he took part in the Polish campaign from Galicia to the peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk , as well as in the winter campaign in the Serbian highlands. In 1916 he fought in the Battle of Verdun . In 1916 he was promoted to major in the Landwehr, 1st Guard, Field Artillery Regiment. In 1918 he fell ill and was treated in the hospitals in Charleville and Nauheim.

In 1921 he was appointed professor at the Dresden Art Academy .

At the age of 62, Schadow died of flu on October 16, 1924.

student

Exhibitions

Fonts

  • With a brush and palette through the big world - memories of a painter. With 15 art supplements. Koehler, Leipzig 1922.

Works (selection)

Schadow began painting portraits at a young age . His representations are realistic. In 1903 he portrayed Pope Leo XIII. in the Vatican, later also Pope Pius X. In addition to portraits, he also painted landscapes.

Portrait of Rudolf Virchow
Portrait of Joseph Wolseley
  • Portrait of a gypsy (manor Niedamowo, lost)
  • Portrait of Minister Witte
  • Portrait of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
  • Portrait of Lord Lister (discoverer of antiseptic wound treatment)
  • Portrait of Lord Kelvin
  • Portrait of Sir James Pagel
  • Portrait of Tennyson (English poet)
  • Portrait of Nordenskjöld (polar explorer)
  • Portrait of an English princess T.
  • Portrait of Reinhold Begas
  • Portrait of Joseph Joachim
  • Portrait of Adelina Patti at her Craig-y-Nos Castle, Wales (singer)
  • Portrait of Katharina Klaffski
  • Portrait of Gertrud K.
  • Portrait of Paul Nauen
Garden in Alexandria
  • Effigy of Canon Duckworth of Westminster
  • Portrait of Robert Bunsen (Berlin, Chemical Society)
  • Portrait of Gustav von Bergmann (Berlin, German Society for Surgery)
  • Portrait of Karl Gussenbauer (surgeon)
  • Portrait of Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833–1913) Field Marshal , oil, 1896 See picture on the right
  • Portrait of Henrik Ibsen , around 1900, painting, oil / canvas (60 × 47 cm)
  • Temple of Philae in Upper Egypt , 1907
  • Garden in Alexandria , 1907, painting, oil / canvas (43 × 61 cm) see picture on the right
  • Jerusalem, Church of the Holy Sepulcher , 1907, painting, oil / canvas (58 × 40 cm)
  • Mansion and Church on the Lakeshore Reference also applies to the following seven images
  • Autumn mood , painting, oil / panel (mahogany) (39 × 59 cm)
  • First snow in autumn , painting, oil / canvas (30 × 40 cm)
  • Watermill at the Lütschiner waterfall , painting, oil / cardboard (30 × 31 cm)
  • Low mountain range with a stream and buildings , painting, oil / canvas (35 × 55 cm)
  • Watermill in a wooded landscape , painting, oil / cardboard (30 × 31 cm)
  • Moulin à eau , painting, oil / plate (30 × 31 cm)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and work of the artist Ernst-Marfels. ( Memento from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on: neckargemuend.de
  2. ↑ a b c d web.artendung  ( page no longer available , search in 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 / web.artendung  
  3. ↑ gac.culture.gov.uk
  4. ↑ Image artnet.de
  5. ↑ lot-tissimo.com

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Schadow, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schadow, Hans Otto Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1924
Place of death Bad Driburg