Portraits & Schadographs (The Art of Christian Schad)
Christian Schad (August 21, 1894 — February 25, 1982) was a German painter associated with Dada and the New Objectivity movement. Schad was born in Miesbach, Upper Bavaria. He studied at the art academy in Munich in 1913. A pacifist, he fled to Switzerland in 1915 to avoid service in World War I, settling first in Zurich and then in Geneva. Both cities were centers of the Dada movement, and Schad became a Dadaist. He was witness of the foundation of the famous Cabaret Voltaire. In this period he developed a close friendship with the writer anddadaist Walter Serner. Beginning in 1918, Schad created his own version of the Photogram (which later was named “Schadographs” by Tristan Tzara) where a contour picture is developed on light-sensitive platters. From 1920 to 1925, he spent some years in Rome and Naples, where he studied the Italian painters, and married. In 1927 the family emigrated to Vienna. His paintings of this period are closely associated with theNew Objectivity Movement. In the late twenties, he returned to Berlin and settled there. Although many sense that he was horrified by the Nazis, his art was not condemned in the way that the work of Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, and many other artists of the New Objectivitymovement was; this may have been because of his lack of commercial success. He became interested in Eastern philosophy around 1930, and his artistic production declined precipitously. Schad died in Stuttgart on February 25, 1982. Schad’s …
Certainly not a good artist.
Uhh…che sorpresa!!…Le schadografie sono eccezionali!!!!!
La giovane donna a 3:04 è molto inquietante.
Hahh, love your Webern (too)–this is Glenn Gould playing. Easy to determine !