Sascha Schneider

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This article is about the German painter and sculptor Rudolph Karl Alexander Schneider. For the violinist Alexander (Sasha) Schneider, see Alexander Schneider.
Sascha Schneider

Karl May (left) with Sascha Schneider, 1904
Birth name Rudolph Karl Alexander Schneider
Born (1870-09-21)21 September 1870
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died 18 August 1927(1927-08-18) (aged 56)
Swinemünde, Germany (now Poland)
Nationality German
Field Painting, sculpture
Training Dresden Academy of Fine Arts

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 in Zürich, but following the death of his father, Schneider, moved to Dresden, where in 1889 he became a student at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (Kreuzgymnasium). In 1903 he met best-selling author Karl May, and subsequently became the cover illustrator of a number of May's books including Winnetou, Old Surehand, Am Rio de la Plata. A year later in 1904, Schneider was appointed professor at the Großherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstschule Weimar.

During this period Schneider lived together with painter Hellmuth Jahn.[1] Jahn began blackmailing Schneider by threatening to expose his homosexuality, which was punishable under § 175 of the penal code.[2] Schneider fled to Italy, where homosexuality was not criminalized at that time. In Italy, Schneider met painter Robert Spies, with whom he traveled through the Caucasus Mountains. He then traveled back to Germany, where he lived for six months in Leipzig before returning to Italy, where he resided in Florence. When the First World War started, Schneider returned to Germany again, taking up residence in Hellerau (near Leipzig). After 1918, he co-founded an institute called Kraft-Kunst for body building.[3] Some of the models for his art works trained here.

Schneider, who suffered from diabetes mellitus, suffered a diabetic seizure during a ship voyage in the vicinity of Swinemünde. As a result he collapsed and died in 1927 in Swinemünde. He was buried in Loschwitz Cemetery, Germany.

Works

  • Mein Gestalten und Bilden. 1912. autobiography

Exhibitions

  • Sascha Schneider - Ideenmaler & Körperbildner/"Sascha Schneider - Visualizing ideas through the human body" (2013), Stadtmuseum Weimar[4]

Gallery

  • "The Anarchist" (1894)

  • Cover illustration for Old Surehand by Karl May (1904)

  • Cover illustration for Winnetou III by Karl May (1904)

  • Cover illustration for Am Rio De La Plata by Karl May (1904)

  • Cover illustration for Ardistan und Dschinnistan by Karl May (1904)

  • "Hypnosis" (1904)

  • "Peace on Earth" (1904)

  • "Dawn" (1905)

  • "Icarus" (1906)

  • "Moon Night" (1906)

  • "Gymnasion" (ca. 1912)

  • "Feeling of Dependence" (1920)

  • "Tobias and the Angel" (1921)

  • "Youth in a Blue Coat" (1921)

Literature

  • Hans-Gerd Röder: Sascha Schneider - ein Maler für Karl May. Karl-May-Verlag. Bamberg 1995. 3-7802-0280-8.
  • Rolf Günther / Dr. Klaus Hoffmann: Sascha Schneider & Karl May — Eine Künstlerfreundschaft. Karl-May-Stiftung. Radebeul 1989.
  • Hansotto Hatzig: Karl May und Sascha Schneider. Dokumente einer Freundschaft. "Beiträge zur Karl-May-Forschung". Edition 2. Bamberg 1967.
  • Annelotte Range: Zwischen Max Klinger und Karl May. Karl-May-Verlag. Bamberg 1999. 3-7802-3007-0.
  • Felix Zimmermann: Sascha Schneider. Verlag der Schönheit. Dresden 1924.
  • Sascha Schneider: Titelzeichnungen zu den Werken Karl Mays. Verlag von Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld. Freiburg. 1905.

References

  1. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, Mann für Mann, pages 636, 637
  2. ↑ Hellmuth Jahn relationship and blackmail in karl-may-wiki.de (in German) http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Hellmuth_Jahn
  3. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, Mann für Mann, pages 636, 637
  4. ↑ "Van-de-Velde-Jahr Thüringen 2013". Retrieved 2013-06-21. 

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