Osmar Schindler (December 21, 1867 – June 19, 1927) was a German painter belonging to the

Dresden Academy The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institution is the product o ...

school of artists. His works were considered a mixture of

impressionism Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating ...

and

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

Life

Osmar Schindler was born on December 22, 1867, in the village of Burkhardtsdorf, but grew up in the small town of

Bischofswerda Bischofswerda (; hsb, Biskopicy) is a small town in Germany at the western edge of Upper Lusatia in Saxony. Geography The town is located 33 km to the east of Dresden at the edge of the Upper Lusatian mountain country. The town is kno ...

(both part of the

German Empire The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...

), 33 km east of

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

. He lost his father at an early age, and so with the support of his uncle, Schindler attended the Dresden Art Academy where he was taught by

Ferdinand Pauwels Wilhelm Ferdinand Pauwels ( �pʌu̯əls 13 April 1830, Ekeren – 26 March 1904, Dresden) was a Belgian history painter who lived and worked in Germany. Life From 1842 to 1850, he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), under Gu ...

and Leon Pohle with attending students including

Sascha Schneider Rudolph Karl Alexander Schneider, commonly known as Sascha Schneider (21 September 1870 – 18 August 1927), was a German painter and sculptor. Biography Schneider was born in Saint Petersburg in 1870. During his childhood, his family lived ...

Hans Unger Hans Unger (August 26, 1872 – August 13, 1936) was a German painter who was, during his lifetime, a highly respected Art Nouveau artist. His popularity did not survive the change in the cultural climate in Germany after World War I, how ...

and Richard Müller. By 1895 Schindler had travelled to Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and Italy. In 1900 he was appointed professor of the

Dresden Academy of Fine Arts The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institution is the product o ...

. He led the Modellierklasse and counted

George Grosz George Grosz (; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objec ...

, Karl Hanusch, Bernhard Kretzschmar and Paul Wilhelm as his students as well as discovering

Hanns Georgi Hanns Georgi (21 September 1901 – 23 October 1989) was a German painter, printmaker and book illustrator. Early life Hanns Georgi was the youngest of five children of August Friedrich Wilhelm and Anna Georgi Georgi, Scharschmidt born in Dre ...

. He died on June 19, 1927, and was buried at

Loschwitz Cemetery Loschwitz Cemetery (german: Loschwitzer Friedhof) is the second burial ground, still in use, of Loschwitz, part of the city of Dresden, Germany, replacing the graveyard of Loschwitz church, no longer used for burials. The cemetery was dedicated in ...

Works

His works include landscapes, historical and figurative scenes as well as contributions to the interior décor of various buildings. For example, his vestry paintings ''Christ, the Light of the World'' (1927) can be found in the Church of Christ in his home of

. There is also a painting of a monumental altarpiece depicting the crucifixion of Christ at Christ Church (designed by Woldemar Kandler) in

Klotzsche in 1905. His most recognizable works are ''Im Kumtlampenschein'' (1901) and ''David and Goliath'' (1888), as well as the portraits of the German engineer

Christian Otto Mohr Christian Otto Mohr (8 October 1835 – 2 October 1918) was a German civil engineer. He is renowned for his contributions to the field of structural engineering, such as Mohr's circle, and for his study of stress. Biography He was born on 8 Octo ...

and the distinguished professor of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Herman Prell. Schindler was also involved in the Internationale Kunst Ausstellung in 1897. His work is generally considered influenced by

, with his work displayed at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), his work for the Dresden exhibition in 1897 (Ausstellung), including his work within the various the churches, leaning toward

Controversy

One of Schindler's works ''Mocking Christ'' was donated to the Fischerhude Church but has been the centre of controversy regarding its purported

anti-Semitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...

References

External links

www.europeana.eu
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schindler, Osmar 1869 births 1927 deaths People from Erzgebirgskreis People from the Kingdom of Saxony German Impressionist painters Art Nouveau painters 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists