Christian Schad

* 21ST AUGUST 1894 IN MIESBACH, OBERBAYERN (GER)
† 25TH FEBRUARY 1982 IN STUTTGART (GER)

Christian Schad was a German painter and was part of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement. He is one of the most important exponents of Verismus and was inventor of his own photographic process, the schadograph. Schad studied for several semesters at the art academy in Munich. To avoid military services he fled to Zurich in 1915 where he came into contact with Dadaism.In 1916 he lived in Geneva and from 1920 in Rome. Here he created the first Neue Sachliche portraits. In the mid 1920s he moved with his family to Vienna and in 1928 he went alone to Berlin and enjoyed the city life of the decadent 1920s. During this time he produced around 30 of his most well know portraits. In 1942 he fled to Achaffenburg. After the war he created magic realistic paintings and in the 1970s he returned to the schadograph. Since this time his early works have received new found recognition and have been shown in numerous exhibitions and can be found in the most prominent European museums.