Wilhelm Schmid (painter)
Wilhelm Schmid (born February 7, 1892 in Remigen , † December 1, 1971 in Brè near Lugano ) was a Swiss painter who is assigned to the New Objectivity and Magical Realism .
Live and act
Wilhelm Schmid was born in Remigen bei Brugg AG in 1892; he emigrated to Berlin via Italy in 1912 . In 1914 he worked in the Berlin office of the architect Paul Renner . When he was commissioned to lead the renovation of the villa of the owner family Metz in Potsdam , he got to know the daughter of the owners, the chamber singer Maria Metz, who performed under the stage name Maria Alba . They married in 1918, and from then on she bore the name Maria Schmid-Metz. From 1922 he built a house for himself and his wife not far from the Villa Metz, the so-called stage house .
In 1918 he co-founded the November Group , in which the “Revolutionaries of the Spirit” came together (artists such as Otto Dix , Wassily Kandinsky and Rudolf Belling belonged to it). In 1923 a monograph was published on Schmid in which, for example, his Pierrots lunaires or pictures of musicians such as Puccini Butterfly (both now owned by the city of Lugano ), the Mona Luna (now in the Aargauer Kunsthaus ), early landscapes and individual still lifes were depicted. Wilhelm Schmid belonged to the artistic-cultural movement of the New Objectivity . He, who referred to himself as a “Swiss and farmer” in a self-styling, was considered a young hope in art and aroused corresponding interest among the critics.
In 1924 he moved to France, in 1928 he mainly worked in Paris and southern France , with occasional trips to Italy. In 1930 he returned to Berlin. Influenced in part by French surrealism , he painted pictures such as Le Duel and other headless ones . As the political climate with the seizure of power by the Nazis turned into Germany, he was considered "degenerate". He had to return to Switzerland with his Jewish wife . In the Ticino Brè-Aldesago he went into an “ inner emigration ”. The integration into the Swiss art scene failed. His last giant painting The Heliand ( La Cena , today owned by the federal government) was found offensive here in 1946.
literature
- Curt Bauer: Wilhelm Schmid. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1923. ( Young Art, Volume 39).
- Wilhelm Schmid 1892–1971. A pioneer of magical realism. Exhibition catalog, with texts by Patricia Nussbaum, Ulrich Gerster, Uli Däster et al. Kunstmuseum Olten, 2007, ISBN 978-3-906651-35-4 .
- Thomas Stein (ed.): Contested ways of modernity - Wilhelm Schmid and the November group , Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag [2018], ISBN 9783731907275 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Schmid in the catalog of the German National Library
- Patricia Nussbaum: Schmid, Wilhelm. In: Sikart (as of 1998)
- Works by Wilhelm Schmid on artnet
- Wilhelm Schmid Museum Brè about Lugano on the Lugano Tourismo website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edith Krebs: New Objectivity in Switzerland. in: Sikart , accessed January 31, 2018.
- ^ Peter Degener: The White Villa and the artist Wilhelm Schmid. In: Märkische Allgemeine . November 13, 2018, accessed March 28, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmid, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Remigen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st December 1971 |
| Place of death | Brè near Lugano |