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Christian Schad

Christian Schad (1894 - 1982) was active/lived in Germany.  Christian Schad is known for Abstract and realist portrait and landscape painting, printmaking, photography.

Christian Schad was born in Miesbach, Upper Bavaria, on 21 August 1894.  A passion for both art and music - he played the violin - forced him while still a schoolboy to chose between them.  In 1912 Christian Schad left higher secondary school and opted for painting. At the Munich Academy of Fine Arts* he started out in Heinrich von Zügel's painting class but changed after a semester to Becker-Gundahl's class in drawing from the nude.  At that time Schad met Georg Schrimpf and Ernst Moritz Engert.

Christian Schad managed to simulate a heart problem in order to avoid military service. Furnished with a medical certificate, Schad went to Zurich but not before he had shown his early work at the Munich Secession* in spring 1915.  In Zurich, Schad became acquainted with Walter Serner, who would remain a close friend throughout his career.

In October 1915 Serner and Schad published Sirius, eine Monatsschrift für Literatur and Kunst ["Sirius, A Monthly   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5875 characters.]  Artist bio

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