Otto Scholderer

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Otto Scholderer: Self-portrait with painting utensils

Franz Otto Scholderer (born January 25, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 22, 1902 there ) was a German painter.

Life

Scholderer was the son of the teacher at the model school , Johann Christoph Scholderer . Immediately after finishing school in 1849, Scholderer came to the Städelsche Kunstakademie and was there until 1851, among others, a student of the art historian Johann David Passavant and the painter Jakob Becker . Then Scholderer settled down as a freelance painter. From this time Scholderer's friendship with Victor Müller resulted , whose brother-in-law he became in 1868.

It was through Müller that Scholderer got to know and appreciate the works of Gustave Courbet , and it was Müller who persuaded him to undertake several short study trips to Paris between 1857 and 1858 . In Paris, Scholderer made friends with Henri Fantin-Latour and Édouard Manet and was also influenced by them. Fantin-Latour immortalized Scholderer in his picture Un atelier aux Batignolles (1870).

From 1858 Scholderer lived and worked mainly in Kronberg im Taunus . There he joined u. a. Anton Burger , Peter Burnitz and Louis Eysen and was close to the Kronberg painters' colony . In 1866 Scholderer settled in Düsseldorf , where he became friends with Reiner Dahlen and Philipp Röth . It was through the latter that he met Hans Thoma . Scholderer went to Paris with Thoma in 1868 and only returned to Germany shortly before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War .

First Scholderer settled in Munich , where he joined Wilhelm Leibl and his circle . He also knew Leibl from his time in Paris. At the beginning of 1871 Scholderer went to London and worked there until autumn 1899. At the end of 1899 Scholderer returned to his hometown of Frankfurt am Main.

There he died at the age of almost 68 on January 22nd, 1902. Otto Scholderer's main artistic work consists of portraits and still lifes, whereby his early work is still dominated by impressions of the landscape. Today in particular one sees Scholderer as an important link between Romanticism and Impressionism .

Works (selection)

  • The violinist at the window (1861), Städelsches Kunstinstitut , Frankfurt am Main
  • Mrs. Scholderer at the breakfast table
  • Portrait of Oswald Sickert

gallery

  • Self-portrait 1875–76

  • Luise Scholderer on the ottoman

  • Flower maker

  • The violinist at the window

  • Roses in glass vase

  • Still life

  • Pasture landscape (Zons am Rhein)

  • Ocean surf

literature

  • Jutta M. Bagdahn: Otto Franz Scholderer: 1834–1902. Monograph and catalog raisonné. Freiburg 2002 ( online ).
  • Friedrich Herbst: Otto Scholderer 1834–1902. A contribution to the history of artists and art in the 19th century. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1934.
  • Dieter Rebentisch (Hrsg.): Art and artists in Frankfurt / M. in the 19th and 20th centuries. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-7829-0545-8 .
  • Heinrich Weizsäcker (ed.): Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the 19th century. Baer, ​​Frankfurt am Main.
    • 1. The Frankfurt art life in the 19th century in its basic features. 1907.
    • 2. Biographical Lexicon of Frankfurt Artists in the 19th Century. 1908.
  • Jutta M. Bagdahn:  Scholderer, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 441 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Otto Scholderer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Scholderer 1834–1902. The new reality of the picturesque. On the 100th anniversary of death . Haus Giersch, Museum Regionaler Kunst, 7 April to 4 August 2002, Frankfurt am Main 2002, p. 65


personal data
SURNAME Scholderer, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scholderer, Franz Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1902
Place of death Frankfurt am Main