Samson Schames

Fritz Siegfried Samson Schames (born December 31, 1898 in Frankfurt am Main , † 1967 in New York ) was a German-American painter .

Samson Schames came from a long-established Frankfurt Jewish family. The art dealer Ludwig Schames , an important sponsor of Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner and other Expressionists , was his uncle and introduced him to art.

Schames began his artistic studies at the Offenbach School of Applied Arts , but had to interrupt it because he was called up for military service. After the end of the First World War , he continued studying at the Frankfurt School of Applied Arts . From 1928 he devoted himself intensively to painting.

Together with his wife he left Germany forever in 1939, after under the National Socialists he could only show his pictures in exhibitions of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden or in his own studio. In exile in London , Schames was active in the Free German Cultural Association and was able to show his works in group and solo exhibitions. In 1948 he and his wife moved to New York, where he died in 1962.

Samson Schames belongs to the so-called lost generation .

literature

• Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Samson Schames 1898-1967 - Pictures and Mosaics - Frankfurt, London, New York , catalog for the exhibition from March 23 to June 18, 1989.
• City of Frankfurt (ed.): Four Frankfurt artists in the resistance - Arthur Fauser, Leo Maillet, Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer, Samson Schames , Frankfurt 1995.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The fate of emigrants: works by Samson Schames , http://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/kultur/historisches-museum-emigrantenschicksal-arbeiten-von-samson-schames-1178785.html , accessed on September 26, 2015 .

Web links

• Video from the Jewish Museum Frankfurt about Samson Schames.