Robert Spies

This article deals with the painter, graphic artist and sculptor Robert Spies, for the tennis player see Robert Spieß .

Robert Spies (born May 7, 1886 in Saint Petersburg , † September 17, 1914 in Juvincourt , France ) was a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

Life

Spies first attended a school in Saint Petersburg . From 1899, after moving to Dresden , he received continuing school lessons at the Dreikönigsschule and at the Vitzthumschen Gymnasium . In 1905 he began studies in Weimar and Florence and from 1907 to 1908 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Johannes Raphael Wehle and Robert Sterl . In 1910 he went on a study trip to Munich and the Caucasus with the sculptor Sascha Schneider . From 1911 Spies worked as a freelancer in his parents' house in Dresden-Wachwitz . Study trips to Tyrol , Italy , France , Paris and Berlin followed from 1911 to 1914 . Further study trips took him from 1912 to 1913 to southern France , Spain and North Africa . He created some small sculptures, symbolic pictures and linoleum cuts.

Spies fell in France during World War I. He was buried in the Tolkewitz urn grove . The sculptor Sascha Schneider created his grave .

literature

• Artist on the Dresden Elbe slope. Volume II, 1st edition. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-936240-09-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts.
2. ^ Artist on the Dresden Elbe slope. Volume II. 2007, ISBN 978-3-936240-09-2 .
3. ^ Obituary in the Dresdner Anzeiger , page 13 of September 29, 1914;
   fallen as a lieutenant in the reserve in the 16th c. Saxon. Infantry Regiment No. 182