Walther Scholtz

Advertising poster for Graf Shuvalov cigarettes

Walther Scholtz (born February 20, 1861 in Dresden , † August 2, 1910 in Meersburg ) was a German genre , portrait and landscape painter .

Life and works

Walther Scholtz was a son of the painter Julius Scholtz . He began his training with Ferdinand Pauwels and later studied further in Munich .

Scholtz's picture Sonntagmorgen im Dachstübchen , which originated in Munich, was shown at the International Art Exhibition of the Association of Berlin Artists in 1891, and in 1900 it was represented at the 32nd Great Painting Exhibition of the Kunstverein in Bremen .

His works did not always meet with enthusiasm. In 1900 the magazine for visual arts and the art chronicle said, referring to paintings by Scholtz, which were on view in Berlin : “But the most unpleasant thing to see here is an exhibition by F. Walther Scholtz- Dresden. ” Paul Warncke went on to say that the mass of pictures that the probably still very young painter shows conveyed an impression of the desolation, and he spoke in all sharpness about individual works by Scholtz. In the case of the picture with the title Rätsel it is only a mystery how something like this could be exhibited at all, in the case of a female nude only "complete impotence with regard to coping with the accusation" can be seen, and leaving was much too black. Other pictures showed at least a good, if immature talent, but z. B. a “female figure dressed in screaming green and red with giant feet in the forest” is evidence of a “lack of drawing skills, a sense of color and an addiction to work through external means”, which Warncke found repulsive. He recommended that the painter not come back so intrusively until he had learned more.

The Dresden City Museum came loud Thieme-Becker two of his paintings, the women in the care of wounded soldiers during the Battle of Dresden and a view from the Brühl's Terrace showed.

He also designed a poster for the Xanthi cigarette factory in Dresden, which was reproduced as a chromolithography around 1905 . A copy of this is also in the Dresden City Museum under the inventory number SP 1981/6073. The Xanthi factory belonged to Aron Ewzor Schulmann and produced, among other things, the “ Graf Schuwalow ” brand cigarettes for which the poster based on Scholtz's design advertised. It shows an elegant young lady leaning in an armchair and blowing smoke rings. When Russia became an opponent of the German Empire in World War I , the brand was renamed "Our Strength". Schulmann's factory existed until the 1920s.

In 1904 Scholtz painted the Brunntor in Kallmünz . He died after a short, serious illness in Meersburg on Lake Constance .

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ International art exhibition organized by the Association of Berlin Artists on the occasion of its 50th anniversary (1841–1891). Catalog . Second edition, Berlin 1891, p. 58 ( digitized version )
2. ↑ Catalog of the thirty-second large paintings exhibition of the Kunstverein in Bremen without images February 15 to April 15, 1900 on the directory of the exhibition catalogs of the Kunsthalle Bremen / 1829-2004 ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Karl Friedrich Arnold von Lützow: Journal for visual arts . Verlag von EA Seemann, 1900, p. 307 ( limited preview in Google book search)
4. ^ Paul Warncke, Berlin , in: Kunstchronik . New series, eleventh year, Leipzig and Berlin 1900, column 327 f. ( Digitized version )
5. ↑ Holger Starke: Advertising poster of the Dresden cigarette factory Xanthi , in: Free State of Saxony (ed.), City Museum Dresden (= Sächsische Museen. Volume 21), Verlag Janos Stekovics, Dößel 2010, ISBN 978-3-89923-265-3 , p. 211 f.
6. ↑ Walther (FW) Scholtz in Kallmünz on www.bergverein-kallmuenz.de
7. ^ EA Seemann: Art Chronicle . EA Seemann, 1910 ( limited preview in Google book search)