Karl Skomal
Karl Skomal (born January 7, 1863 in Bielsko-Biała , † November 26, 1915 in Trier ) was a German-Silesian artist , teacher and director of the newly established craft and arts and crafts school and the commercial advanced training school in Trier.
Life
Karl Skomal attended primary school in Bielitz from 1869 to 1874 and the secondary schools in Bielitz and Vienna from 1878 to 1883 . Afterwards he started u. a. studied with Hermann Herdtle at the arts and crafts school of the Museum of Art and Crafts in Vienna. Already during his studies he took on smaller orders in the arts and crafts. a. He made photo zincographies for the glassware trading company J. & L. Lobmeyr and for the clay industry brick factory and building products Wienbergen . From 1880 to 1882 and 1884 he worked for a time in the studio of the architect Leopold Theyer . He also worked for the Viennese court supplier for wooden goods, Carl Stenzel, and for Bruno Bucher's three-volume history of technical arts he drew several gold goods .
From 1883 he taught freehand drawing for four years as a part-time teacher at the General Drawing School in VI. Mariahilf district of Vienna . In the winter semester of 1886/87 he worked as an assistant teacher for freehand drawing and form theory at the Vienna City Trade School for master craftsmen. The Viennese training center at which Skomal taught was, along with the Berlin School of Applied Arts, a role model for the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts, founded in 1887 , because at the time it met the requirements of a rapidly developing industrial society like no other . From 1888 to 1900 he went to Magdeburg as a meanwhile successful teacher to work as an arts and crafts teacher at the crafts and arts and crafts school. Here u. a. the subjects of ornamental technical drawing as well as drawing according to models and he still looked after the institution's own library. In March 1900 Skomal was appointed founding director of the commercial training center in Trier by the Prussian State Ministry for Trade and Industry . In 1905 a building craft course was attached to the school under his direction. He had already turned down a thief post at the Aachen industrial school in 1904.
In 1910 he was appointed professor. In 1911, when the school was being restructured, he visited his former colleagues in Magdeburg to exchange ideas with them. In 1912, 30 to 40 teachers, including Heinrich Tessenow , looked after up to 1,000 students at the Trier school . Skomal also played an important role in the design of the new school building on Paulusplatz in Trier. After his death in November 1915 it was said: “Skomal's merits lie v. a. in an effort to build up the Trier School of Applied Arts, where he introduced essential elements of the art school reform movement for which he had been committed since the Magdeburg period ” .
Awards
- 1912: Red Eagle Order IV class
literature
- Bernhard Simon: Skomal, Karl . In: Heinz Monz (Ed.): Trier biographical lexicon , Trier Wissenschaftlicher Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , p. 438.
Web links
- Entry on Karl Skomal in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Skomal, Karl (1863-1915), craftsman and teacher, In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon
- ↑ a b Skomal, Carl, In: rathay biographies
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Skomal, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Silesian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielsko-Biała |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1915 |
| Place of death | trier |