Heinrich Schmidt-Rome

Heinrich Schmidt-Rom , (born March 26, 1877 in Berlin as Heinrich Wilhelm Nicolaus Schmidt , † September 28, 1965 in Dessau ), was a German landscape painter and portraitist.

Life

After completing his first training as a glass painter at the Berlin School of Applied Arts in 1894, he studied from 1901 to 1903 at the Royal Academic University of Fine Arts in Berlin (Vollmer). As a scholarship holder, he lived on the grounds of the Villa Strohl-Fern in Rome from 1903 to 1905 . In 1904 he went on a study trip to Sicily, where he took the stage name Schmidt-Rom. In 1906 Schmidt-Rom settled in Dessau as a landscape painter and portraitist. Long journeys took him to North Africa and Bali in 1909/1910, to Capri in 1911 and again to Sicily and Capri in 1924. Schmidt-Rom was also known as a copyist. He made copies of Van Dyck's paintings. They replace originals from Wörlitz Castle, which remained with the Anhalt ducal house in 1927.

literature

• Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of the visual artists of the 20th century . Seemann, Leipzig 1979, ISBN 978-3-86502-127-4 .
• Martin Scholtka and Reinhard Melzer: Heinrich Schmidt-Rom, painter from Dessau . Series of publications on the history of the city of Dessau and the surrounding area / ed. from the Museum of City History Dessau. Ed .: City of Dessau-Rosslau (=  Between Wörlitz and Mosigkau ). Museum for City History, Dessau, 2011, DNB  015139220 , ZDB -ID 972952-5 .

Web links

• Kunstverein pays tribute to Schmidt-Rom. Exhibition in Dessau. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , accessed on January 12, 2014 .