Sascha Schneider

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Sascha Schneider (r.) With Karl May, 1904

Sascha Schneider (born September 21, 1870 in Saint Petersburg , † August 18, 1927 in Swinoujscie ; actually Rudolph Karl Alexander Schneider ) was a German professor , sculptor and painter who was best known as an illustrator of the cover pictures of Karl May's travel stories .

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Sascha Schneider's grave site in April 2018

Sascha Schneider, son of an editor and print shop owner, spent childhood and youth in St. Petersburg. In 1881 the family first moved to Zurich . After the father's death, the family moved on to Dresden , where he attended the Kreuzgymnasium .

In 1889, after graduating from high school, Schneider began studying art at the Dresden Art Academy . In 1893 he moved into a studio with a colleague and started exhibiting in 1894. He opened his own studio in Meißen in 1900 , where he designed a fresco in the Johanneskirche in today's district of Cölln . As part of the Düsseldorf art exhibition in 1902 , his picture "Um die Truth" was exhibited in the "Dresden" room of the exhibition palace. From 1900 to 1904 Schneider lived in the household of his widowed mother and his unmarried sister. From 1902 he was friends with Kuno Ferdinand Graf von Hardenberg , with whom he corresponded intensively and who also supported him financially.

In 1903 he met the writer Karl May . After Schneider had already designed various wall paintings in Leipzig, May commissioned Schneider for the wall painting Der Chodem in October 1903 . Half a year later, May decided to have his travel stories furnished by Verlag Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld with new symbolist cover images by Sascha Schneider (Sascha Schneider edition). Schneider confided his homosexual orientation to Karl May . This did not prevent Karl May from commissioning a series of new cover pictures from Schneider (e.g. Through the desert , Through the wild Kurdistan , Am Rio de la Plata ). Under pressure from the publishers, however, these representations were replaced on the occasion of the next edition and banned in small art portfolios. In 1904 Schneider moved to the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar as a professor . He had a large studio built for himself, where he created many monumental male sculptures and paintings in the following years. During this time he was in a relationship with the painter Hellmuth Jahn . When Jahn began to blackmail Schneider, he fled to Italy, where homosexuality was unpunished at the time. There he met the painter Robert Spies . They both traveled to the Caucasus together . He returned to Leipzig for almost half a year and then lived in Florence until the outbreak of World War I , where he had now met the painter and sculptor Daniel Stepanoff. As an artist, he was denied the recognition he deserved in Germany at that time. His sculpture Badende Knaben , which he had created for the Albertinum in Dresden, was rejected in 1912 because of “incitement to unnatural fornication”.

After 1914 Schneider lived in the Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz or in Hellerau near Dresden. Together with a colonel general and a sports master, he founded Kraft-Kunst , an institute for physical training and education. Among other things, young male nude models trained there, which Schneider captured on his body culture images.

Schneider died in 1927 after a sugar derailment of diabetes mellitus with subsequent coma; a suicide (attempt) is very likely. This happened on a round trip by ship shortly before the ship entered the port of Swinoujscie . His grave is in the Loschwitz cemetery , which was decorated with a portrait bust of Paul Peterich .

Sascha Schneider was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Works

  • Mein Gestalten und Bilden , 1912, autobiographical writing
  • Title drawings for the works of Karl May . With an introductory text by Prof. Dr. Johannes Werner. Published by Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld, Freiburg, 1905
  • Fountain mosaic in Bad Schandau . For the fountain hall built in Bad Schandau between 1921 and 1922, Sascha Schneider created a large glass mosaic that is still preserved today. This shows a nymph emerging from the flowing mist of the spring. With her arms outstretched, she lifts up two bowls from which the healing water flows. Old, frail and young sufferers hold out their bowls and drink the water. The mosaic was restored from 1991 to 1993 by the Dyroff company from Dippoldiswalde.
  • Benches in front of Karl May's crypt in Radebeul . After Karl May's death in 1912, Sascha Schneider created the two stone benches in front of the crypt in the Radebeul cemetery. Schneider himself changed his original design, which still provided for sphinxes, and then decided on lions.

Picture gallery

  • "The Anarchist" (1894)

  • "The Mammon and His Slave" (1896)

  • Cover image for Old Surehand by Karl May (1904)

  • Cover image for Winnetou III by Karl May (1904)

  • Cover image for Am Rio de la Plata by Karl May (1904)

  • Cover image for Ardistan and Dschinnistan by Karl May (1904)

  • Cover image for Peace on Earth by Karl May (1904)

  • "Hypnosis" (1904)

  • "Dawn" (1905)

  • "Icarus" (1906)

  • "Moon Night" (1906)

  • "Naked Satyr" pencil and charcoal drawing (Weimar 1906)

  • "Gymnasion" (approx. 1912)

  • "Boy's Head", watercolor (approx. 1912)

  • "The feeling of addiction" (1920)

  • "Tobias and the Angel" (1921)

  • "Young Man in a Blue Coat" (1921)

  • Sascha Schneider in his studio in 1902

  • Former studio and home of Sascha Schneider in Meißen

literature

  • Hans-Gerd Röder: Sascha Schneider - a painter for Karl May . Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 1995, ISBN 3-7802-0280-8
  • Rolf Günther, Klaus Hoffmann: Sascha Schneider & Karl May - An artist friendship . Karl May Foundation, Radebeul 1989, ISBN 3-910035-03-5
  • Rolf Günther: Symbolism in Saxony 1870-1920. Dresden, Sandstein, 2005, ISBN 3-937602-36-4
  • Hansotto Hatzig: Karl May and Sascha Schneider. Documents of a friendship . In: Contributions to Karl May Research , Volume 2, Bamberg 1967
  • Annelotte Range: Between Max Klinger and Karl May . Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 1999, ISBN 3-7802-3007-0
  • Felix Zimmermann: Sascha Schneider . Verlag der Schönheit, Dresden 1924
  • Frank Andert (editor): Stadtlexikon Radebeul. Historical manual for the Loessnitz . 2nd, slightly changed edition. City administration, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9
  • Hans-Dieter Steinmetz , Hartmut Vollmer (Ed.): Karl May. Correspondence with Sascha Schneider . Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg & Radebeul 2009, ISBN 978-3-7802-0093-8
  • Silke Opitz (ed.): Sascha Schneider - idea painter & body builder . Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-86068-489-4
  • Klaus Funke: The Spirit Brothers. Novel of an artist friendship. Karl May and Sascha Schneider . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2013, ISBN 978-3-89876-651-7
  • Christiane Starck: Sascha Schneider. An artist of German symbolism. Scientific articles from Tectum Verlag Kunstgeschichte Vol. 5, Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8288-3805-5

Web links

Commons : Sascha Schneider  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Figure "To the truth", in Paul Clemen: The German National Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf . In: Art for All. Painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture . Issue 23, 1902, p. 535 (digitized version)
  2. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, Nicolai Clarus: Mann für Mann: biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male-male sexuality in the German-speaking area , part 1, LIT-Verlag, Münster 2010. ISBN 978-3-6431-0693-3 , p. 1070 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, man for man, pages 636/637
  4. ↑ Hans Otto Hatzig: Karl May and Sascha Schneider, documents of a friendship. Bamberg, Karl-May-Verlag 1967
  5. ^ Frank Andert (editor): Stadtlexikon Radebeul. Historical manual for the Loessnitz . 2nd, slightly changed edition. City administration, Radebeul 2006, p. 174
  6. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Schneider, Sascha ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 26, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  7. ^ Karl May: Correspondence with Sascha Schneider , Karl-May-Verlag Bamberg-Radebeul, Volume 93, 2009, various pages
  8. ^ Karl May: Correspondence with Sascha Schneider , Karl-May-Verlag Bamberg-Radebeul, Volume 93, 2009, pages 305 and 306
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Sascha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Rudolph Karl Alexander (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and book illustrator by Karl May
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1927
Place of death Swinoujscie