Ludwig Schmid-Reutte - Ruhende Fluchtlinge

Ludwig Schmid-Reutte (13 January 1863 - 13 November 1909) was a

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naturalist painter.

Biography

Ludwig Schmid-Reutte was born in

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, a mountain village to the west of

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and

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. Franz Anton Schmid, his father, was a peasant farmer who also worked as a builder and stone mason. Ludwig attended school locally and then moved across the nearby border into

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(which had recently been subsumed into an enlarged German state) and worked as a "Builder's henchmen" (''"Maurer-Handlanger"''). In 1878 he was able to enroll at the

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where he was a pupil of fellow Tirolean

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and of

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was a contemporary. Following his student years his first commissions involved producing paintings for churches. at the start of 1890 he teamed up with Friedrich Fehr in order to set up a private drawing and painting school in

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. During his time at the

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Schmid-Reutte had pursued his artistic study with particular intensity in the anatomical dissecting room, and some sources describe the painting school as a specialist arts school for anatomy drawing. The academy acquired a good reputation, also providing instruction of life models to students of the

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at the Munich (women) artists' association (''"Münchner Künstlerinnenverein"''). During the 1890s in Munich he was also giving private art lessons. One young pupil was the painter-sportsman

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. In 1899 Schmid-Reutte and Fehr accepted professorships at the

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. Schmid-Reutte was popular with students, sometimes attracting classes of up to 60. Among his more notable students were Hermann Föry, Wilhelm Gerstel and Hans Meid. Because of a

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he was obliged to resign in 1907. Two years later he died at the "Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Illenau für psychisch Kranke" (psychological spa institution) at

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(

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Work

After Schmid-Reutte had left behind him the influence of his Munich teacher Danegger and moved on from mainstream painting he turned increasingly to representations of the human body. His stylised monumentalist and symbolic nudes attracted considerable notice in the arts world, even if the overall number of his own pieces remained small. He is believed to have completed barely 50 works.

Honors

In 1904 he was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class of the Zähringer Lion.

References

External links

More drawings and prints by Schmid-Reutte
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