Mathias Schmid (painter)

This article deals with the painter Mathias Schmid. For other people see Matthias Schmid .

Portrait of Mathias Schmid
Supplement to the Darmstädter Tagblatt, No. 6/1891

Mathias Schmid (born November 14, 1835 in See in the Paznaun Valley, † January 22, 1923 in Munich ) was an Austrian painter.

Life

Mathias Schmid: Farm girl at a charcoal stove

Mathias Schmid came to a gilder in Munich in 1853 and stayed there for three years, after which he attended the academy . At first he devoted himself to religious painting, but only found the right ground for his talent when, after many fates, he entered the school of Piloty in 1869 . Following the example of Franz Defregger , he first chose the materials for his pictures from Tyrolean folk life. Mathias Schmid also created numerous socially and church-critical images, such as the "mendicant monks", "the cart pullers", "the confessional slip" or "the merchant". Schmid later became a founding member of the Old Catholic Church in Munich. The painting The Expulsion of the Zillertal Protestants (1837) shows without pathos the fate of these people and one last glimpse of the expellees at home. Meyers Konversationslexikon from 1888 judges him: "With depth and truth of the characteristics he combines great grace of the design and a soft, delicate coloring". Schmid was a royal professor.

Honors

In Ischgl in Paznaun there is a privately owned Mathias Schmid Museum and on the occasion of his 150th birthday a Mathias Schmid art trail was laid out in 1985, on which panels with paintings are exhibited at regular intervals. The Mathias-Schmid-Weg was named after him in the Ramersdorf-Perlach district of Munich .

Works (selection)

• The Lord God Carver
• The mendicant monks
• The confessional collection
• The moral judge
• The bridal exam and
• The exodus of the Zillerthalers
• The engagement
• The hunter's salute
• The soaped pastor
• The rescue of a fallen edelweiss picker by her boy
• The journey to the pilgrimage

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schmid, Mathias . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 30th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1875, pp. 299–303 ( digitized version ).
• G. Ammann:  Schmid (blacksmith) Mathias. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 286 f. (Direct links on p. 286 , p. 287 ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Museums in Ischgl accessed on ischgl.riskommunal.net on May 15, 2014

Web links

Commons : Mathias Schmid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Mathias Schmid in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mathias Schmid on farbholzschnitt.at
• Mathias Schmid in HeidICON Illustrations of the Flying Leaves

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