Suse Schmidt-Eschke

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Pen drawing on paper, with a view of Tübingen from Uhland's garden by Suse Schmidt-Eschke, approx. 36 × 30 cm (signed and titled by the artist on the lower right of the margin), monogrammed SSE in the lower left of the picture
Painting with a view of Mölln in winter, oil on canvas, 47 × 37 cm, signed lower right, lower left (dated?) 45

Suse Schmidt-Eschke , née Susanne Schmidt (born January 26, 1872 in Halle an der Saale ; † May 26, 1941 ibid) was a German painter , lithographer, drawing and language teacher.

Life

artistic education

From around 1892 to 1900, Suse Schmidt-Eschke took painting and drawing lessons from the Leipzig drawing teacher and city drawing inspector Fedor Flinzer . This was done in such a way that once a week she presented him with the drawings, which in the meantime had mostly been made from nature, without supervision. At the same time she stayed several times over several weeks to learn watercolor painting with Erwin Oehme in Dresden.

As she intended to become a drawing teacher, she took lessons in projection theory, shadow construction and perspective from Lamprecht in Leipzig. In 1902 she acquired knowledge of anatomy and skills in portrait and nude painting in Friedrich Fehr's studio in Karlsruhe. She then painted and etched in Berlin, Mölln, Lüneburg and on study trips under Wilhelm Feldmann's direction. Feldmann, with whom she said she was “the longest”, assessed her in 1918 as follows: “I am happy to testify to Miss Suse Schmidt-Eschke that, as my student, she pursued her artistic studies with zeal and success. She has not only created remarkable independent pictures - she has also done very good things in the field of etching. "

She acquired the skills of depicting flower still lifes from a Fraulein Rose in Berlin. Also in Berlin she was trained in the "Atelier-Schule Reimann" in the arts and crafts drawing. Back in Leipzig, she took part in nude drawing as a guest at the Royal Academy for Graphic Arts and the Book Industry for a few semesters . At this school she also took part in a stone drawing course with the lithographer Arthur Schelter. In the winter semester of 1899/1900 (October 16 to March 15) she attended lectures at the University of Leipzig. For many years, Suse Schmidt-Eschke was a member of the “General German Association of Artists”.

Professional background

Graphic by Suse Schmidt-Eschke, probably created in Bad Sachsa, 43 × 35 cm, monogrammed SSE on the left in the picture, signed on the right edge

Under the name Susanne Schmidt, she has been teaching female students for the middle and upper classes of the Leipzig municipal high school for girls in the foreign languages ​​English and French since around 1891 . Jakob Wychgram , director of the school, confirmed to her in August 1898 that she “gave this preparatory lesson with great methodical skill and that she is especially able to use the new method with confidence and complete understanding”. She applied to the University of Leipzig in 1899 with the specialist teaching certificates for the French language of November 28, 1890 and for the English language of November 23, 1898 . Both the university judge Dr. Metzes and the rector of the university, Wilhelm Kirchner himself, granted her on November 1, 1899, “subject to the approval of the lecturers concerned, permission to attend lectures and the like. to use the academic institutions ”.

Exhibitions

According to his own statements, Suse Schmidt-Eschke has “sent all kinds of exhibitions since 1904”.

  • ???? Big exhibition Hannover
  • ???? Exhibitions by the General German Association of Artists
  • ???? Thuringian Artists Association
  • 1913: March exhibition in the art gallery PH Beyer & Sohn Leipzig

Works

Works by Suse Schmidt-Eschke were purchased by the Leipzig City History Museum during his lifetime . The Bad Sachsa winter sports and local history museum owns an oil painting, other paintings were sold at auctions and are now privately owned.

Web links

Commons : Suse Schmidt-Eschke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hall death register No. 1761/1941, accessed on ancestry.com on January 6, 2018
  2. ↑ Handwritten reply from the artist dated May 16, 1918 in: Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Gotha "Government of Erfurt, Rep. 21567, files regarding the daughter home 'Maria Erika' Bad Sachsa"
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ Certified copy of the Bad Sachsa police administration dated May 11, 1918 in: Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Gotha "Government of Erfurt, Rep. 21567, files relating to the daughter home 'Maria Erika' Bad Sachsa"
  5. ↑ Membership list of the German Association of Artists ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  6. ↑ Various copies of assessments and certificates from the years 1898/1899/1900 in: Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Gotha "Government of Erfurt, Rep. 21567, files regarding the daughter home 'Maria Erika' Bad Sachsa"
  7. ↑ Kunstnachrichten, Beiblatt der Kunstwelt, No. 6. 1913
  8. ↑ [2]
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Eschke, Suse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Susanne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1941
Place of death Halle on the Saale