Robert Friedrich Karl Scholtz

Robert Friedrich Karl Scholtz (born April 14, 1877 in Dresden , † May 29, 1956 in Berlin ) was a German expressionist portrait and landscape painter, graphic artist and draftsman . He belonged to the Berlin Secession .

Life

Scholtz was the son of the royal Saxon chamber virtuoso Hermann Scholtz and his wife Flora (née Nádler), a sister of the Budapest landscape painter Róbert Nádler . The Scholtz family came from Breslau , Silesia . He had three sisters. The house of the pianist, music educator and composer Hermann Scholtz, best known as Chopin's interpreter and editor of his collected works, served as a center of Dresden's musical life, where some of the greats of the music world, including Edvard Grieg , Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Hans von Bülow and Max Kalbeck frequented.

Scholtz began his training in 1894 with his uncle Róbert Nádler in Budapest and continued it in Dresden with Leon Pohle . In 1900 he went to Munich to study with Carl von Marr at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts . He also began studying graphic art under Peter Halm . Around this time Scholtz bought a small summer house in Landsberg am Lech , where he met the painter and graphic artist Hubert von Herkomer , who strengthened his interest in graphic arts. In addition to his painting skills, Scholtz was known for his quick sketch work.

Act

In 1903 Scholtz moved from Munich to Breslau, from where he made trips in the vicinity of Silesia and Paris . In Breslau he was known as a portraitist. In 1907 Scholtz married Eva Bercht from the Berlin banking family Paul Bercht and shortly afterwards moved to Berlin. There he felt comfortable among the protagonists of the Berlin Secession , especially Lovis Corinth , Eugen Spiro and Leo von König , and became a member of it. His apartment was not far from Corinth's studio, with which he was close friends and was the godfather of his only child, Walter. Soon he made trips abroad: in 1907 to Morocco and Spain; 1908 to England, Ireland and France; 1909 to Rome; 1910 to Egypt, Italy and Sudan; 1911 to Italy and 1912 to Wales. During the First World War , Scholtz took the opportunity to draw prisoners of war in the prison camp near Berlin. After the war he traveled to Sweden and Finland. All journeys are reflected in his work. He was also represented at several art exhibitions: 1906 in Breslau; 1909 in Munich, Hamburg, Leipzig and Dresden; 1913 in Budapest and 1916 and 1927 in Dresden. In 1913 construction work began on his house at Schleinitzstraße 7/9 in Grunewald, which was completed in the course of 1914. It was designed by the architect of the Berlin radio tower, Heinrich Straumer . There Scholtz had extensive studio facilities for his artistic activities, including the etching room, printing room, exhibition space and studio.

Main working years

Scholtz 'most productive years were from 1901 to 1919 and from 1925 to 1926. In 1927, when Scholtz was 50 years old, there was a large exhibition of his work in the Arnold Gallery in Dresden with portraits, lithographs and paintings by Jascha Heifetz, Lovis Corinth, Richard Strauss, Hans Pfitzner, Harry Liedtke, Brigitte Helm, his father and mother. There were also some still lifes and landscapes with subjects from all over Europe. Hermann Uhde-Bernays wrote a commemorative publication on this occasion .

A photo with accompanying text about Scholtz appeared in 1931 in the Reich Manual of the German Society . It was probably indicative of his lifestyle from the age of fifty: elegantly dressed with a dog sitting in an elegant body. From his 50th birthday in 1927, few other works by him are known. After the war, some of his earlier work was shown in various art exhibitions. In the last days of World War II , his house was completely destroyed by the approaching Soviet troops. Scholtz and his wife lived briefly at Trabenerstrasse 4 and then until his death at Bettinastrasse 14, both in Grunewald.

plant

Altogether more than 650 different works by Scholtz are mentioned in the literature (Ref. 3-21): approx. 150 paintings, 40 watercolors , 170 etchings , 270 lithographs (including colored lithographs) and 85 graphic works in mixed media (including drypoint, vernis mou , Aquatint ). Many appear several times, such as Dampfer im dry dock (1918, Liverpool), Poplar (1911), Lady in a Riding Dress (1914), etc. Some others cannot be found in literature, but only appeared in the art trade. The whereabouts of most of his work is not known; only 11 paintings, two watercolors and about 30 prints have been located. The two paintings from the Berlin National Gallery are lost after the war. Two works by Scholtz can be found in Berlin museums: Landscape with a lake painting in the Märkisches Museum and Adolf Menzel etching / Vernis-mou in the Kupferstichkabinett .

Grave site

Lichtfuß grave facility formerly RFK Scholtz

He was buried in 1956 in the Grunewald cemetery . His grave is no longer preserved. The resting place of the Lichtfuß family is today in position V 3-14. The original tombstone with the inscription "Scholtz Kunstmaler" is still in use.

literature

• Scholtz, Robert Friedrich Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 247 .
• Scholtz, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 213 .
• Wolf-Rüdiger Bonk: 125 years of the Grunewald villa colony. Stories about people and houses as part of a walk through the Bornstedter Strasse cemetery. Berlin 2016.

Web links

• Robert Friedrich Karl Scholtz on artnet
• Robert Friedrich Karl Scholtz in the museum-digital

Remarks

1. ↑ 02269 Robert Scholtz . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts (ed.): Matriculation book . tape  3: 1884-1920 . Munich ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Scholtz, Robert Friedrich Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape  30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 247 . Scholtz, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape
    4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 213 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Hermann Uhde-Bernays: Festschrift Robert FK Scholtz. Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1927, p. 78.
4. ↑ Detlev Lorenz: Traces of Artists in Berlin from the Baroque to Today. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-496-01268-4 , p. 144.
5. ^ ^{A b c} Galerie Ernst Arnold: Robert FK Scholtz, exhibition of etchings and lithographs. 1916.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Amsler & Ruthardt: Robert FKScholtz, original etchings-lithographs, catalog XXIV. 1911.
7. ↑ P. Kirschgraber (Ed.): The art. XXIV. Volume, Volume 44. Bruckmann, Munich, A&B Schuler Vlg. 1921, Heinrich Straumer, architect.
8. ↑ see, inter alia, in:
   Catalogs of the exhibitions of the Berlin Secession 1899–1932;
   Catalogs of the major Berlin art exhibitions, 1910–1932;
   Art and Artists , Auction News, Volume 15, 1917;
   Alexander Koch (Hrsg.): German art and decoration. Volume XLII, April 1918 - September 1918, pp. 250-251;
   Die Kunst , monthly issue 37th Vol. 1918;
   Art exhibition Dresden 1918, Dresdner Kunstgenossenschaft, Verlag Albert Hille, Dresden;
   Paul Cassirer (published): Herman Struck, The Art of Etching. Berlin 5th edition 1923.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Max Osborn (introduction): Publication of the art archive No. 33 Robert FKScholtz (exhibition Galerie Ernst Arnold, March 1927)
10. ^ Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag (Ed.) Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft, 1931. Second volume, Berlin SW, ISBN 3-598-30664-4 , pp. 1691–1692.
11. ↑ Adolf Jannasch, Käte Gläser (organizer): Berlin Art Exhibition Christmas 1949, 1950.
12. ^ Catalogs: General German Art Exhibition Dresden 1949.
13. ^ Catalogs: Jury-free art exhibition Berlin 1952–1955.
14. ^ Stadtmuseum Berlin: Directory 2004.
15. ↑ Lost: National Gallery in Berlin: Doc-No. 02521727, Scholtz, Robert - The Globichsee - 1917
16. ↑ Dominik Bartmann (Ed.): From Liebermann zu Pechstein, Art of the Berlin Secession from the Stadtmuseum Berlin. P. 108.
17. ↑ Scholtz, RFK: Adolf Menzel, back figure (etching Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Inv.No. 295B-1934).