Christian Schad
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Christian Schad (August 21, 1894 in Miesbach, Oberbayern - February 25, 1982 in Stuttgart) was a German painter associated with the New Objectivity movement.
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[edit] Life
Schad studied at the art academy in Munich. In 1915, to avoid service in World War I, he fled to Zurich in Switzerland where he participated in the Dada movement. He was witness of the foundation of the famous Cabaret Voltaire. In this period he developed a close friendship with the writer and dadaist 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 married and studied the Italian painters. Then the family emigrated to Vienna. His paintings of this period are closely associated with the New 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 same manner as the rest of the New Objectivity movement of Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Max Beckmann.
[edit] Work
His work is known for its depiction of 1920s Weimar cafe culture. It contains a frank depiction of sexuality and apparent liberality, but its figures have a cold, sharp demeanor, obviously still affected by the war.
