Paul Hermann Schoedder

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Paul Hermann Schoedder (born November 17, 1887 in Iserlohn , † November 14, 1971 in Allendorf , now Sundern ) was a German painter .

Life

Schoedder attended the Märkische Realgymnasium in Iserlohn and then studied art history and philosophy in Leipzig from 1908 . He met Max Klinger and decided to become a painter. In addition, he took his first painting and etching courses with Fritz Rentsch and Alois Kolb, and from 1910 private lessons in Munich with Charles Jaeckle and Hermann Groeber . The following year he began studying at the Munich Art Academy . There he attended the drawing class of Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl and took painting lessons from Hermann Urban and Max Doerner . During the First World War , in which he participated as an officer, he had to interrupt his studies. After the war he returned to Munich and finished his studies with several awards and as a master class student. He initially worked as a freelance painter. From 1926 he went on various study trips, including to Paris, southern France and Corsica.

In 1927, the Dortmund School of Applied Arts appointed Paul Hermann Schoedder to teach figurative drawing and painting. In 1930 he moved with his wife Elsbeth Schoedder, née von der Trappen, to Hüttebruechen near Allendorf, where he built a house for himself and his family of eight in 1937. In 1935 Schoedder directed the Great Westphalian Art Exhibition in Dortmund's House of Art. However, under pressure from the local NSDAP leadership, he had to hand over this position to Franz Gerwin in the following years . From 1940 he took part in the Second World War and in 1945 was taken prisoner by the British. After the war he returned to Dortmund and worked from 1949 until his retirement in 1952 as a teacher for painting, anatomy, art history and drawing at the Werkkunstschule Dortmund. In retirement, he devoted himself entirely to painting and drawing.

Paul Hermann Schoedder died in Hüttebruchten near Allendorf. His artistic estate is in the Westphalian Slate Mining Museum in Holthausen in Schmallenberg .

Services

Paul Hermann Schoedder took part in numerous exhibitions, such as the 1922 annual exhibition of the Munich Secession in the Glass Palace . The city of Dortmund commissioned him in 1930 to paint a history picture as a mural. In 1937 the Museum of Art and Cultural History Dortmund honored him on the occasion of his 50th birthday with a special exhibition.

Works

  • Paul Hermann Schoedder: Paul Hermann Schoedder (1887–1971): Travel memories of a painter . Ed .: Saskia Durian-Ress. Augustinermuseum, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994 (exhibition catalog).

literature

  • Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . tape IV . Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 209 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ulrike Gärtner: Schoedder, Paul Hermann . In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 3 . Klartext, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-88474-954-4 , p. 171 f .
personal data
SURNAME Schoedder, Paul Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schödder, Paul Hermann (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1971
Place of death Allendorf