Paul Schad-Rossa

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Self-portrait, around 1907, charcoal, 37 × 27.5 cm, private collection
Portrait of Ferruccio Busoni and his wife (1908)

Paul Schad-Rossa (born January 1, 1862 in Nuremberg , † November 1, 1916 in Berlin-Steglitz ) was a German painter , copyist and sculptor .

life and work

Paul Schad-Rossa is the stage name of Georg Paul Schad, son of a Protestant post chief conductor. His artistic training began at the local art school in Nuremberg, where he first studied sculpture. In 1882 he passed the entrance exam to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , which at that time was still housed in the old Neureuther building. Here he took the natural class of painting with Ludwig von Löfftz and Franz Defregger . In addition, Schad-Rossa worked as a copyist for old masters. One of his clients was Charles I the King of Romania .

In 1888 Schad-Rossa left the academy and ran a painting school in Munich. One of his most famous students was the later painter Hermann Knottnerus-Meyer . Through him, Schad-Rossa also became known to the group of artists around Hermann Löns . In November 1902 there was an exhibition in the art salon in Hanover . The poet wrote an essay about the painter in a very personal style: “That was the damage my friend (sc. Hermann Knottnerus-Meyer) told me about, the quiet artist who, with a trembling heart, follows nature on its way, to listen to her creative secrets, the strong man who has the will and the ability to bring his own world to life in his works, a world very different from the living world, but just as true as this, just as alive. "

Schad-Rossa summarized his artistic program in the sentence: "Art is the opposite of nature." Nevertheless, his central work was mainly open-air painting, and basically he remained loyal to the plein air tendencies throughout his life . However, he changed his painting style when it seemed right - and probably useful - to adapt to the new tendencies of the Munich Secession , which broke with the old, historically oriented painting tradition and began to assert itself at the local academy after 1892.

Death Symphony, around 1902/3, oil on canvas, 93 × 120 cm, private collection

The reorientation of Paul Schad-Rossa drew wide circles. From 1900, the archaeologist Wilhelm Gurlitt, as the new President of the Steiermärkischer Kunstverein , tried to push through modern endeavors in the tradition-steeped Graz at the turn of the century, and "one not only brought works of the radical 'secessionists" in the exhibitions ... Rossa from Munich and supported his efforts with all means. "

From September 1900 Paul Schad-Rossa worked in Graz and set significant impulses in modern art in Styria. First he founded an art school. The first exhibition of his own pictures and samples from his pupils opened in November 1900. At the same time, the magazine Grazer Kunst was published in 1901, which published the first publications by modern artists who were either born or worked in Styria. The magazine had no follow-up and only appeared once. The art magazine contained several first prints by Paul Schad-Rossa, in addition to the two-tone cover drawing, a three-color lithograph for book decorations ( Du Blume im Thau ), a scraped, three-color lithograph ( Christmas, motif near Graz ) and a four-color lithograph ( homeland, motif from Styria ) .

Nude in the salon, around 1908, oil on canvas, 148 × 163 cm, private collection

In September 1901 Paul Schad-Rossa drafted statutes for the Grazer Künstlerbund , on October 13th, 1901 he was elected chairman of the Grazer Künstlerbund at the constituent assembly . In the same month, under Schad-Rossa's direction, the first exhibition took place with works by eight Graz-based members (Georg Brucks, Béla Conrad, Franz Mikschowsky, Ludwig Presuhn, Schad, Konrad von Supanchich, Margarete Supprian), two corresponding members (Engelmann from Berlin, and Meyer from Hanover) as well as by numerous Schads students. The Grazer Künstlerbund of Paul Schad-Rossa dissolved on December 5, 1903 at the written request of the deputy chairman Georg Winkler. Although his work as part of the Grazer Künstlerbund was very limited in time, he shaped the Graz art scene around 1900 primarily as a teacher. In addition to Alfred Schrötter from Kristelli , Paul Schad-Rossa can be mentioned as a protagonist of the first modern movement of the so-called Grazer Zeitkunst around 1900 .

The Steiermärkischer Kunstverein with its sense of modernity dissolved again in 1906 because tradition and down-to-earthness recaptured the terrain. Schad-Rossa left Graz in early March 1904. His new place of work until the end of his life in November 1916 was Berlin ( workshop building in Hubertusstrasse; 1907 in Berlin-Steglitz, Düntherstrasse). From there he made trips to Italy (1909), Spain and Portugal (1911) and the Bavarian mountains (1912).

At the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1914 (May 1 to 30, 1914) Schad-Rossa was given its own room in which he could present 23 paintings. He found the motifs predominantly at Wannsee , which repeatedly inspired him to new works. His pictures were also shown at exhibitions in Munich. Some paintings came to the Städtisches Museum Halle (e.g. Die Verfluchten ) and the Rudolfinum Klagenfurt (e.g. Das Dörfchen ).

Research status and projects

Paul Schad-Rossa and his work are increasingly moving into the focus of art and the public.

The research project on contemporary art in Graz at the Institute for Art History at the Karl-Franzens-University focused on regional art in Graz around 1900 from 2007 to 2011 and discovered the forgotten artist Paul Schad-Rossa and with him the entire modern movement around 1900 in Graz again. This is known as Grazer Zeitkunst and confirms that Graz already had a lively, avant-garde art scene around 1900. From the collaboration between the Karl-Franzens-University and the Universalmuseum Joanneum, the exhibition “Departure into Modernism? Paul Schad-Rossa and the Art in Graz “2014.

The city of Engen devoted itself to a multi-year research project with the subsequent special exhibition Paul Schad-Rossa (1862 - 1916). The rediscovery of a symbolist in the Städtisches Museum Engen + Galerie (March 11 to July 6, 2014) for the artist. Over 200 unpublished works by the artist - lithographs, oil sketches, paintings and drawings - from over 20 lenders from Germany and Austria were shown. The extensive exhibition catalog proves to be a hitherto missing basic work on the life and work of the artist Paul Schad-Rossa, “who, as a neo-romantic and symbolist, literally sat between the stools of tradition and modernity, [...] but in a time that was more profound social and spiritual Upheavals an extraordinarily expressive and multifaceted company for deep-dimensional research into the human psyche dared. "

In autumn 2014 the exhibition “Aufbruch in die Moderne?” Will open in the Neue Galerie Graz at the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz. Paul Schad-Rossa and the arts in Graz ”(November 7, 2014 to January 22, 2015). The exhibition provides an overview of Schad-Rossa's recently rediscovered oeuvre and confronts it with works by Styrian artists in the media of painting, sculpture, graphics, photography and poster art from around 1900 to the 1920s - including many newly discovered Works. It shows how long Symbolism and Art Nouveau lived on here apart from the metropolis and asks the question to what extent the innovations of that time meant a departure into modernity. Works from the show in Engen will also be shown.

Art market

Pictures - including sketches - by Paul Schad-Rossa are currently represented on the international art market and some are traded for five-digit sums.

Wannseeufer, around 1912, oil on canvas, 157 × 132 cm, private collection

Individual works

Images of individual works by Paul Schad-Rossa can be found as objects of the art trade on the web via search engines. Below is a selection:

  • Nude drawings , no year, chalk on handmade paper, each 54.4 × 35 cm.
  • Into Eternity or Women in Landscape , n.d. (early work), oil on canvas, 93 × 120 cm.
  • Nude in the salon , undated (early work), oil on canvas, 121 × 112 cm.
  • Corpus Christi procession , undated (early work), oil on canvas, 100 × 128 cm.
  • Dance scene , around 1900, charcoal drawing on paper, 24 × 31.5 cm.
  • Lying cow by the pond , around 1900, charcoal drawing on handmade paper, 33 × 38.5 cm.
  • Paradise fields , around 1900, oil on canvas (prima painting), 63.3 × 87.5 cm.
  • Adam and Eve , around 1910, oil on panel, 70 × 48 cm.
  • Bathers at the lake , around 1910, watercolor and pastel on cardboard, 47.5 × 69.5 cm.
  • Landscape with a lake , around 1910, watercolor and pastel on handmade paper, 50 × 60.8 cm.
  • Landscape in Pommera , around 1914, oil on canvas, 69 × 101 cm.
  • Wannseeufer , 1914, oil on canvas, 156.7 × 131.8 cm.
  • Two Dancing Girls by the Sea , 1915, oil on canvas.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Eva Klein: Forgotten Styrian Modernism. Paul Schad-Rossa and the creative milieu around 1900 . In: Historical yearbook of the city of Graz . Volume 41. City of Graz (Ed.), Graz 2012, ISSN  0440-9728 , pp. 593–616.
  • Grazer Künstlerbund, Paul Schad-Rossa (Hrsg.): Grazer Kunst . Wagner, Graz 1901.
  • Hermann Löns: At Paul Schad . In: Hermann Löns: thoughts and shapes . From the estate ed. by Wilhelm Deimann. Sponholtz, Hanover 1924.
  • Hans Riehl : The Styrian painting 1850-1950 . In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Edited by the Institute for Regional Studies at the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz by Dr. Franz Pfeffer. No. 3/4 from 1951 (5th year), pp. 318–326, online (PDF; 900 kB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  • Ulrike Tropper: The creative milieu of Graz around 1900. A contribution to cultural life at the turn of the century. Dissertation. University of Graz, Graz 1994.
  • Antje Senarclens de Grancy: "Modern Style" and "Local Building". Architectural reform in Graz around 1900 . Cultural studies at Böhlau, special volume 25, ZDB -ID 1061615-9 . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-205-99284-9 .
  • Eva Klein: The poster in modern times. The beginning of graphic design in Styria in the context of international socio-cultural developments . Dissertation. University of Graz, Graz 2011. (Chapter 1.1.5: Paul Schad-Rossas Grazer Künstlerbund and magazine Grazer Kunst ).
  • Gudrun Danzer, Peter Pakesch (eds.), Departure into Modernity? Paul Schad-Rossa and the arts in Graz, exhibition catalog Neue Galerie am Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz 2014. http://www.museum-joanneum.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Kataloge/PDFs/Schad-Rossa089.pdf
  • Paul Schad-Rossa (1862-1916): The rediscovery of a symbolist . Catalog of the special exhibition 2014 in Engen (238 pages). Edited by Velten Wagner on behalf of the city of Engen. City of Engen 2014. ISBN 978-3-938816-14-1 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Schad-Rossa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Steglitz, No. 799/1916
  2. ↑ See Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 6, 1902.
  3. ↑ a b Löns: At Paul Schad . In: Löns: thoughts and shapes , p. 41 ff.
  4. ^ Riehl: The Styrian Painting 1850–1950. P. 321.
  5. ↑ Grazer Morgenpost. November 18, 1900.
  6. ↑ a b Editions digitized by the Austrian National Library :  Grazer Kunst . (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / grk.
  7. ↑ They were approved with high Lieutenancy Decree Z.32184 of September 9, 1901 (according to the founding protocol ).
  8. ↑ See founding minutes in the archive of the Steiermärkischer Kunstverein.
  9. ↑ Theater and Art. (...) Styrian Art Association. In:  Grazer Tagblatt. Organ of the German People's Party for the Alpine Countries, morning edition, No. 281/1901 (XI. Year), October 11, 1901, p. 5 center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb,
    Dr. E .:  Art exhibitions (part 1/2). In:  Grazer Tagblatt. Organ of the German People's Party for the Alpine Countries, morning edition, No. 285/1901 (XI. Year), October 15, 1901, p. 1 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb,
    Dr. E .:  Art exhibitions (part 2/2). In:  Grazer Tagblatt. Organ of the German People's Party for the Alpine Countries, morning edition, No. 293/1901 (XI. Volume), October 23, 1901, p. 1 ff. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb.
  10. ↑ Cf. letter to the Lieutenancy of December 5, 1903 in the act to dissolve the association of the Grazer Künstlerbund.
  11. ↑ Klein: Forgotten Styrian Modernism. In: Historical yearbook of the city of Graz . Graz 2012.
  12. ↑ Senarclens de Grancy: "Modern Style" and "Heimisches Bauen" , p. 162.
  13. ↑ Grazer Zeitkunst Research Center for Styrian Art History at the Karl-Franzens University Graz, accessed on July 2, 2018.
  14. ^ Eva Klein, Forgotten Styrian Modernism. Paul Schad-Rossa and the creative milieu around 1900, in: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Graz, ed. v. of the City of Graz, Vol. 42, Graz 2012, pp. 593–616.
  15. ↑ Eva Klein, Die Grazer Zeitkunst and the poster. Commercial graphics around 1900, in: Gudrun Danzer, Peter Pakesch (eds.), Aufbruch in die Moderne? Paul Schad-Rossa and the arts in Graz, exhibition catalog Neue Galerie am Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz 2014, pp. 68–79.
  16. ↑ Science meets Museum , online magazine of the University of Graz, accessed on December 1, 2014.
  17. ^ Wagner: Who was Paul Schad-Rossa? . In: http://www.paul-schad-rossa.de/
  18. ↑ Gudrun Danzer, Peter Pakesch (eds.), Aufbruch in die Moderne? Paul Schad-Rossa and the arts in Graz, exhibition catalog Neue Galerie at the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz 2014
  19. ↑ Notice on the exhibition , accessed on August 21, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Schad-Rossa, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schad, Georg Paul; Schad, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, copyist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1916
Place of death Berlin-Steglitz