Carl Schuch

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Wilhelm Leibl, The Painter Carl Schuch (1876; German: Der Maler Carl Schuch), Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Carl Eduard Schuch (30 September 1846 – 13 September 1903) was an Austrian painter, born in Vienna, who spent most of his lifetime outside Austria, in Germany, Italy and France. He painted primarily still lifes and landscapes.

From 1865 to 1867, he studied landscape painting under the academician Ludwig Halauska. Among his early works are studies of heads which he said he wished to paint "like still-lifes, tone by tone, without emotion". During the period 1882–94 he was based in Paris, where he was greatly impressed by the work of Claude Monet—whom he described as "the Rembrandt of plein-air painting"—although he was attracted most of all to Rembrandt and the artists of the Barbizon school. In 1884 and 1885 he spent the summer months in the Netherlands, studying the Dutch old masters as well as the contemporary painters of the Hague School, and filling notebooks with detailed descriptions of the colors he observed in paintings that he admired. Of all the artists belonging to the circle around Wilhelm Leibl (called the Leibl-Kreis), Schuch was the most devoted to color. His work marks the transition from the realist tradition to the modern movement in Vienna.

Schuch was financially independent and made little effort to exhibit his work; in his lifetime he sold only one painting. His later years were marked by a degenerative illness, and he stopped painting in 1891. He died in Vienna.

Gallery

• Carl Schuch - Ansicht von Olevano.jpg

  View of Olevano, c.1875, Lower Saxony State Museum

• Carl Schuch (1)Houses in Ferch.JPG

  Houses in the wetlands by Lake Schwielow, between 1878-1881, Alte Nationalgalerie

• Carl Schuch - Schmiede in Weβling III.jpg

  Forge in Weßling, 1876, Morat-Institut, Freiburg

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  Still Life with leeks, cheese and apples, before 1888, National Museum, Warsaw

• Carl Schuch - Matteostilleben.jpg

  Matthew (?) still-life, 1879/80, National Museum in Wrocław

References

• Boehm, Gottfried; Dorn, Roland, and Morat, Franz A. (ed.): Carl Schuch (1846-1903), Kunsthalle Mannheim & Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 1986 ISBN 3-89165-029-9
• Buberl, Brigitte (ed.): Cézanne - Manet - Schuch: Drei Wege zur autonomen Kunst, Hirmer Verlag, München 2000 ISBN 3-7774-8640-X
• Forster-Hahn, Françoise, and Christopher Riopelle (2001). Spirit of an age: nineteenth-century paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin; [published to accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery London, 8 March - 13 May 2001 and at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 10 June - 3 September 2001]. London: National Gallery. ISBN 1-85709-981-8
• Hagemeister, Karl: Carl Schuch, sein Leben und seine Werke, Bruno Cassirer, Berlin 1913
• Lasko, Peter (2003). The Expressionist Roots of Modernism. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-719-06410-4
• Ruhmer, Eberhard: Der Leibl-Kreis und die Reine Malerei, Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1986 ISBN 3-475-52455-4
• Schönmetzler, Klaus J. (ed.): Wilhelm Leibl und seine Malerfreunde, Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 2001 ISBN 3-475-52780-4

External links

• carlschuch.org