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Adolf Gustav Schlabitz (7 June 1854 – 4 September 1943) was a German portrait and genre painter.

Life and work

He was born in Groß Wartenberg as the second child of a soap maker. From 1875 to 1882, he was enrolled at the Prussian Academy of Arts, where he studied with

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and

Ernst Hildebrand Ernst Wilhelm Hildebrand (8 March 1833, Falkenberg, Heideblick - 17 November 1924, Berlin) was a German painter. Many art websites mistakenly identify him as "Swiss". Biography He was the son of a landowner who later became the station mast ...

, among others. With the help of a scholarship, awarded for his painting of a trial in the Breslau District Court, he was able to continue his studies at the

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in Paris, with

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and

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. This was followed by study trips to several locations in Europe and the United States. Upon returning to Germany, he lived in Munich for three years, then opened a private art school in Berlin. By 1901, he was able to afford a house in Brixlegg, which he used as a summer retreat. In 1907, he created a monumental mural, depicting a scene from the life of

Martin Rinckart Martin Rinkart, or Rinckart (23 April 1586, Eilenburg – 8 December 1649) was a German Lutheran clergyman and hymnist. He is best known for the text to "Nun danket alle Gott" ("Now thank we all our God") which was written c. 1636. It was set to ...

, for the (formerly the Royal Gymnasium) in Eilenburg, He also worked as an assistant to at the Technical University, until 1908. At that time, he took a position as assistant in the drawing classes of Ernst Hancke (1834–1914), at what is now the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1911, at the request of

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, he was named a Professor. During the course of his teaching career, which lasted until 1918, he had several students who would become notable, such as Lyonel Feininger,

Albert Windisch Albert Windisch (17 May 1878 – 1 April 1967) was a German painter, Academy Professor and typographer. Windisch was successful as a painter and as a typographer as well. As a painter, he preferred urban scenes and portraits and after 1945 mai ...

, , and

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. He was also a member of the Prussian Academy and the . In addition to his painting, he was an avid collector of folk art. Schlabitz-Trial

In 1921, he retired and took up permanent residence at his house in

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. In 1935, he joined the , a service of the Reichskulturkammer, which provided studio space for approved artists. At eighty-one, he was its oldest member.''Ateliergemeinschaft Klosterstraße - Berlin 1933-1945. Künstler in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus'', Akademie der Künste (Edition Hentrich), Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-894-68134-9 (S. 228) He died at his home in 1943, aged eighty-nine, and was interred in Groß Wartenberg.

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