Julius Schrag

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Julius Schrag (born July 27, 1864 in Nuremberg , † October 10, 1946 or 1948 in Traunstein or Munich) was a German genre painter , graphic artist and etcher .

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Schrag was the son of the royal bookkeeper Georg Friedrich Heinrich Schrag. He spent his childhood and youth in Nuremberg and received painting lessons from Lorenz Ritter for the first time at a young age and visited Max Ebersberger's studio . From April 18, 1882 he attended the nature class of Johann Leonhard Raab at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He also learned from Wilhelm von Diez , Wilhelm von Lindenschmitt and Heinrich von Zügel . His classmates included Maximilian Dasio , Wilhelm Herder and Max Slevogt

As a freelance artist, Schrag initially preferred to stay in Franconia and Tyrol. He was particularly inspired by Dutch painting, the masterpieces of which he saw at the international art exhibition in Munich in 1888. Because of the paintings by the brothers Maris, Mauve and Albert Neuhaus, he wanted to paint landscapes in Friesland and Holland. In 1903 he was able to travel to Holland for the first time, which he had longed for. He created works in Amsterdam , Volendam and Monnikendam .

Schrag then repeatedly visited the Netherlands and Flanders and created paintings in Bruges , Mol , Nieuport , Heeze , Edam , Hoorn and Amsterdam . In 1905 in Salzburg he received the Golden Austrian State Medal for a Dutch landscape painting . During the 10th International Art Exhibition in Munich, he received the gold medal for the picture entitled "Flemish Interior".

In 1911 Schrag lived in Paris for six months . During the First World War he worked as an artist in Lüneburg , Lübeck , Wismar , Stralsund and Danzig . In Stralsund he painted the picture “Sunny House”, for which he received the Golden Austrian State Medal in 1922. From 1920 he dealt with the landscape of East Friesland. For the next almost 25 years he traveled there annually and painted in Emden , Greetsiel , Accumersiel , Carolinensiel and fishing villages on the Unterems, in particular Ditzum and Jemgum . He often worked with the local artists Jaques Roskamp and Georg Warring.

Schrag had a studio on Kaulbachstrasse in Munich, where he kept his pictures from Holland and East Frisia for years. He received many honors and very positive reviews from home and abroad. In 1926 he was appointed professor. His paintings can be seen in numerous German museums, for example in Munich , Nuremberg , Emden , Lübeck , Hanover , Kulmbach and Zwickau . Further pictures are to be found abroad and in private collections.

style

Schrag designed his paintings masterfully in terms of color and was considered a master of interior painting . He created mostly small-format, fine atmospheric pictures with high skies and harsh landscapes of East Friesland. He worked very poetically with deep, rich color tones and liked broad landscapes with free horizons, but also finely drawn canals and banks or the farms that exuded a quiet seriousness. The colors appear balanced and radiant, but never bright or intrusive. His interior paintings from Holland and Friesland therefore appear extremely calm.

Schrag was also considered a masterful draftsman who worked with rich pencil strokes, the expressiveness of which resembled that of his pictures. He could be classified as an impressionist who did not switch to modernism, but did not want to be called such himself.

literature

Web links

Commons : Julius Schrag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schrag, Eduard Philipp Julius . In: Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . tape 3 : Pf.-Z . KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-091296-8 , p. 1378 ( books.google.de - reading sample - anthology, volumes 1–3).
  2. ^ A b c Karl-Heinz Wiechers: Julius Schrag . In: Martin Tielke (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland. Volume 1, Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 1993, ISBN 3-925365-75-3 , pp. 312-314.
  3. ↑ Matriculation entry .
personal data
SURNAME Schrag, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schrag, Eduard Philipp Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1946 or 1948
Place of death Traunstein