€4,000
CHRISTIAN SCHAD*
(Miesbach 1894 - 1982 Stuttgart)
Professor Clemens Holzmeister, 1926
charcoal/paper, 54.2 x 40 cm
signed Schad, dated 26
provenance: estate of the artist, Kunstkabinett G.A. Richter, Stuttgart; Dorotheum Vienna, 2000; Christie's London 2007; Im Kinsky, Vienna 2009; International private collection
ESTIMATE °€ 2.000 - 3.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 2.000
Christian Schad was a German painter of the New Objectivity. Along with Otto Dix, George Grosz, Rudolf Schlichter, Karl Hubbuch and Richard Ziegler, he is counted among the most important representatives of Verism. His estate is kept by the Christian Schad Foundation in Aschaffenburg. He studied at the Academy of Art in Munich under Heinrich von Zügel and Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl, but dropped out after a few semesters. In his Schwabing studio he produced his first expressionist woodcuts. Not far from the studio, important contemporary art exhibitions were held, and with the editorial group "Der Blaue Reiter", an important pioneer of modernism emerged in Munich. In Switzerland, he witnessed the emergence of the Dada movement around Hans Arp, Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings at the Cabaret Voltaire. He had a close friendship with the poet Walter Serner; Schad supported Serner in the founding of the monthly magazine "Sirius" and various Dada actions. He published woodcuts in avant-garde magazines and a graphic portfolio. At the end of 1916 he moved to Geneva, made painting studies in the "lunatic asylum" there and began his Dada phase. In 1919, experiments with materials led to the photograms (Schadographien) later named after him, contour images produced on light-sensitive plates, similar to Man Ray's rayographs. He also worked on wood reliefs, cubist-influenced oil paintings, and other woodcuts. With the approval of the Vatican, Schad painted a portrait of Pope Pius XI in the winter of 1924. In 1925 he moved to Vienna. Schad participated in the exhibition "Die Neue Sachlichkeit" at Neumann-Nierendorf in Berlin. He designed the cover drawings for a seven-volume edition of Walter Serner's works. He participated with some drawings in the "Guide through the "vicious" Berlin" written by Curt Moreck. Among other things, he portrayed Egon Erwin Kisch. Clemens Holzmeister (* March 27, 1886 in Fulpmes, Tyrol; † June 12, 1983 in Hallein, Salzburg) was an Austrian architect who worked in Austria, Germany, Turkey, and Brazil, among other countries.
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