Paul Stade

Paul Gustav Adolf Stade (born July 31, 1854 in Breslau ; † November 30, 1931 in Sondershausen ) was a German painter and drawing teacher.

Life

Detail from the monumental painting

childhood and education

Paul Stade attended art schools in Breslau and Weimar . In Königsberg he passed the examination as a drawing teacher for some time.

Work in Sondershausen

In 1879 Stade got a job as a drawing teacher at the special state schools. From 1883 he was promoted to drawing teacher at the Princely State Seminar in Sondershausen. Five years later he was appointed senior teacher.

Between 1895 and 1897, Stade declared himself mentor to Ferdinand Menge (1876–1962) and gave him private lessons during this time.

For the 50th anniversary of the Princely State Seminar in Sondershausen, he planned a painting project in 1894, which he no longer realized in the same year. In 1897 he finally completed his famous, almost 12 m² monumental painting, which was extensively restored between 2008 and 2010.

In 1905, Stade was appointed professor and was active as a professor until he retired in 1918.

In the state elections and the municipal council elections in 1919, Stade was unsuccessful as a candidate for the German National People's Party .

Paul Stade finally died on November 30, 1931 at the age of 77 in Sondershausen and was buried in the main cemetery of Sondershausen. The grave site still exists today.

family

Paul Stade married his first wife Amalie Emilie Wischnewski (1854–1918) in 1880. He had the following children with her:

• Paul Julius Max (* 1884; fallen in 1915)
• Eva Emma Henriette (1890–1953)
• Bruno (1893–1962)

After the death of his first wife in 1919, Stade took Louise Roscher to live with his wife (1877–1932).

plant

Monumental painting for the special houses state seminar

In 1897 Paul Stade completed his famous, almost 12 m² monumental painting (also known by the synonym "Pedagogue Painting"), which hung in the seminar hall until the teachers' seminar was closed in 1927. Then it was brought to the auditorium of the lyceum , today's Käthe-Kollwitz-Schule Sondershausen, until it was later removed and improperly stored. Initially it was kept in the Sondershausen Castle Museum, then elaborately restored between 2008 and 2010, shown in a special exhibition in the castle in 2010 and then returned to the assembly hall of the Käthe Kollwitz School on September 18 of the same year.

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• Flyer " The School of Teachers - Paul Stade (1854–1931) and his monumental painting for the Sondershäuser Landesseminar ", publisher: Schlossmuseum Sondershausen