Manfred A. Schmid

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Manfred Arnold Schmid (born March 24, 1911 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † July 27, 2009 there ) was a German painter and restorer .

Life

Manfred A. Schmid was one of four children of the school principal Eugen Schmid (1877-1965) and his wife Antonie Arnold Schmid (1886-1975). The eldest brother Hans, (1909–1970) was an engineer, lived and worked in Essen, his twin brother, brother Karl Eugen, became an internist, and his sister Elisabeth Friedeburg (1912–1994) was known as a prehistoric, geologist and paleontologist.

After attending secondary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter. In 1929 he studied at the Baden State Art School in Karlsruhe. Manfred Schmid attended the painting class with Georg Scholz , the etching class with Prof. Walter Conz and was from 1932 to 1933 master class with Prof. Hermann Goebel's own studio . After defaming some teachers and artists and dismissing Prof. Georg Scholz, he withdrew as a master class student. From 1933 he spent two years at the Art Academy in Munich , Prof. Julius Hess's painting class. In this context, he completed Rubens studies in the Alte Pinakothek . Immediately before starting his military service, he acquired his master craftsman's certificate (March 4, 1940). The Second World War took him to France, Yugoslavia and Russia, where he was wounded in the Stalingrad pocket. He processed his war experiences in many sketches. He then worked as a freelance painter and church restorer in Freiburg-Zähringen . From 1960 to 1969 he was chairman of the Professional Association of Fine Arts in South Baden, alternating with sculptor Walter Schelenz . Until 2001 he carried out commissioned work.

Students included Erich Gantzert-Castrillo (* 1940) and the restorer Gerd Ester, who lives and works in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . and Peter Waldeis, former chief restorer at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. (from Die Zeit No. 53/1987, "The dispute about the patina, Ver (bad) improvements")

Schmid was married to Margot Schedlbauer. He had two daughters, Eva (1950) and Dorothee (1951).

Afra as protector of Mühlenbach (1982),
St. Afra , Mühlenbach
Maria immaculata (1960),
ceiling painting in the choir of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt , Ehrenkirchen-Kirchhofen

Works (selection)

Ceiling painting in the nave of St. Markus, Elgersweier (1962)

Manfred Schmid's first commission after the war was the wall design (fresco) at the Sporthaus Bohny in Freiburg i. Brg. His recent work also included the sgraffito next to the entrance to the Wolfenweiler winegrowers' cooperative, the design for the ground glass window between the consecration hall and the mortuary of the Freiburg main cemetery , as well as the ceiling painting (frescoes from 1962) in the parish church of St. Markus in Elgersweier near Offenburg.

Restorations (selection)

Schmid's first major order in 1936 was the interior design of St. Urban in Freiburg-Herdern , which he carried out together with his teacher, the painter Georg Scholz . In 1947 Manfred A. Schmid created the frescoes of the St. Felix monastery church in Neustadt an der Waldnaab and the ceiling painting of the picture chapel Maria vom Troste in Neustadt an der Waldnaab . In 1960 he designed the new main picture of the choir ceiling of the Church of St. Mary's Assumption in Ehrenkirchen-Kirchhofen , a Maria immaculata, after the previous picture was irreparably damaged. In 1963 his ceiling paintings (Resurrection of Jesus Christ, a Pentecost miracle and a picture of All Saints) replaced the previous paintings by Josef Kaltenbach (1869–1912) in the Church of St. Nicholas in Waldau . For the large altarpiece of St. Afra in Mühlebach he painted in 1982 Afra as the protector mill Bach .

Book illustrations

  • Johannes Kaiser (Author): Cow's Milk and Chewing Gum. Stories from a childhood in the Black Forest. Waldkircher Verlags-Gesellschaft, Waldkirch 1998, ISBN 3-87885-324-6
  • Emil Gött (author); Wendelin Duda (ed.): The pilgrimage. Cheerful and contemplative stories from Baden. Freiburger-Echo-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2004, ISBN 3-86028-867-9

Fonts

  • as Manfred Schmid: Memories of Georg Scholz. In: Hans Dieter Mück : Georg Scholz 1890–1945. Painting, drawing, printing. H. Matthaes, 1991, p. 15ff.

Exhibitions

His watercolor Destruction in Kiev was exhibited in the Great German Art Exhibition in 1942 .

The following solo exhibitions with his works were held:

  • February 17 - March 3, 1991: Pictures by Manfred Schmid in the Georg Scholz Haus , Georg Scholz Haus, Waldkirch
  • March 25 - April 22, 2001: Pictures from the war days by Manfred A. Schmid: Catalog for the exhibition / Georg Scholz Haus, Galerie der Stadt Waldkirch, Catalog: Evelyn Flögel; Identification / other numbers: 092166598 (PPN)
  • March 24 - April 17, 2006: Manfred A. Schmid, special exhibition, Augustinermuseum , Freiburg
  • June 2, 2019 - November 3, 2019: Black Forest impressions by Manfred A. Schmid in the Black Forest Ski Museum Hinterzarten

literature

  • Evelyn Flögel: Manfred A. Schmid on the 90th birthday. Images from days of war. Catalog for the exhibition March 25th - April 22nd 2001. Georg Scholz Haus, Galerie der Stadt Waldkirch, Waldkirch 2001.
  • Herbert Falk (author); Ursula Falke (Ed.): Farms shape the Black Forest landscape. Oil painting by Manfred A. Schmid. Dr. Falk Pharma, Freiburg i. Br 2012.

Web links

Commons : Manfred A. Schmid  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schmid, Manfred A. In: Otto J. Groeg (Ed.): Who's Who in the Arts. Volume 2 'N – Z', Who's Who-Book & Publ., 1978, p. 171. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  2. ↑ Andrea Bräuning:  Schmid, Elisabeth. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 145 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Erich Gantzert-Castrillo. In: Susanne Willisch: Joseph Beuys. The end of the 20th century. the implementation of the Haus der Kunst in the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich. Doerner Institut, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, 2007, p. 382.
  4. ↑ Tradition and Modernity: The Two Faces of Gerd Ester . In: https://www.merkur.de . March 29, 2006 ( merkur.de [accessed November 20, 2018]).
  5. ^ Offenburg 775 years of Elgersweier: To St. Mark's honor 'messages from the Ortenau - Offenburger Tageblatt. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Hans Sigmund: A life for painting. Manfred A. Schmid died at the age of 98. In: Badische Zeitung of August 4, 2009 ( digitized version )
  7. ^ Willi Thoma: Manfred A. Schmid - restorer and painter . In: Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Waldkirch and the surrounding area (ed.): Waldkircher Heimatbrief . May 1992, no. 138 . Waldkirch May 1992.
  8. ↑ Reinhard Paetzolt: The picture chapel. Accessed November 20, 2018 (German).
  9. ↑ Destruction in Kiev. GDK Research.
  10. ↑ Dorothea Schork: Manfred Schmid shows his works . Ed .: Elztäler Wochenbericht. Waldkirch February 21, 1991.
  11. ^ Margret Zimmermann ,: 19th and 20th century paintings . In: Augustinermuseum Freiburg (ed.): Inventory catalog . modo Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004, ISBN 3-937014-01-2 , p. 60, 406 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Manfred A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Manfred Arnold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2009
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau