Robert Schade (painter)

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Robert Schade (born June 11, 1861 in Tarrytown , New York , † June 24, 1912 in Milwaukee ) was an American painter .

Life

Schade was the son of August and Augusta Schade , who emigrated from Pomerania and moved to Milwaukee in 1863 . At the age of fifteen he began studying art at the Milwaukee Art Association, where he was tutored by Henry Vianden because of his talent . Like Robert Koehler and Carl von Marr , Vianden encouraged him to study in Munich at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts there . On his return to the United States, he taught at the Milwauke Art School and in 1885 became a member of the American Panorama Company . One of his painting and drawing students was the photographer Edward Steichen . He was a founding member of the Society of Milwaukee Artists , which became what is now the Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors Association.

Schade mainly painted portraits, still lifes and landscapes. One of his well-known paintings depicts the Peshtigo fires , which he witnessed in his childhood at the age of eleven and which obviously had a great impact on him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo13/steichen.htm (English).
  2. ↑ Peshtigo Fire Still Life (1908) (English; biography of the painting).
personal data
SURNAME What a shame, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarrytown (New York)
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1912
Place of death Milwaukee