Richard Schoenfeld
Richard Schoenfeld (born July 13, 1884 in Aschersleben , † July 10, 1956 in Bad Soden am Taunus ) was a German sculptor and painter .
Life and work
Richard Schoenfeld is one of the well-known German portrait, genre and landscape painters . He lived in the spa town for over 50 years and married Mena Freuchen, who was born in Bergen , there in 1915 . She herself was a sculptor with Friedrich Christoph Hausmann at the Städelschule Frankfurt am Main (today the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule ) in Frankfurt am Main .
Richard Schoenfeld studied at the art schools in Breslau and Weimar as well as at the academy in Munich . In 1901 in Weimar he was in a class with Max Beckmann .
On trips to Norway , to his wife's homeland, the painter captured his impressions in countless landscapes. Often in small format drawings. He uses pastel chalk, pencil, colored pencil and charcoal. Schoenfeld experienced a productive creative phase from 1919 to 1944 in his studio in the Städel . He creates cityscapes of Metz , market scenes in Luneville , Taunus landscapes and Soden scenes, such as the "outdoor dance hall" in front of the Paulinenschlösschen . Portraits and still lifes are created as well as etchings and lithographs .
A wall painting in the waiting room of the Frankfurt train station with depictions of Bad Soden and the Taunus is also one of his Frankfurt works. Unfortunately it was lost in the hail of bombs in 1945 like many of his other works. Others were destroyed in the studio in 1944. In the last years of his life Schoenfeld discovered the intensity of the colors with his reverse glass painting. He had recorded 480 works in a catalog for an exhibition that he was planning on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Schoenfeld died three days earlier.
literature
- B. Kramer: Two lives for art; Höchst Kreisblatt, September 26, 2012
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| SURNAME | Schoenfeld, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aschersleben |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1956 |
| Place of death | Bad Soden am Taunus |