Adolf Schinnerer
Illustration — Self-portrait, 1935 Adolf Ferdinand Schinnerer (25 September 1876, Schwarzenbach30 January 1949, Ottershausen, part of Haimhausen) was a German artist and educator, active in painting, drawing and printmaking. He was part of the broad German Expressionist movement. In 1909 he was one of three winners of the recently-established German Villa Romana Prize, allowing a year of residence in a villa near Florence, Italy.
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Adolf Schinnerer

Adolf Schinnerer (1876–1949) · Peter Breuer: Münchner Künstlerköpfe. Callwey, München 1937, S. 299. · Public domain
- Born
- 1876 · Schwarzenbach an der Saale.
- Died
- 1949 · Haimhausen.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · university teacher · illustrator · exlibrist · designer · graphic artist · etcher
- Honours
- Villa Romana Prize
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Self-portrait, 1935 Adolf Ferdinand Schinnerer (25 September 1876, Schwarzenbach30 January 1949, Ottershausen, part of Haimhausen) was a German artist and educator, active in painting, drawing and printmaking. He was part of the broad German Expressionist movement. In 1909 he was one of three winners of the recently-established German Villa Romana Prize, allowing a year of residence in a villa near Florence, Italy.
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From 1920 he was an instructor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where his students included Karl Gatermann the Younger, Juergen von Huendeberg and Emil Krieger. In 1920 his lithograph Das Gastmahl ("The Banquet") was included in a print portfolio volume called Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart ("German Printmakers of Our Time", published by Klinkhardt & Biermann Verlag) with 15 lithographs, eight woodcuts, eight photomechanical reproductions, and one drypoint. The other artists were a very distinguished group, who would mostly later be accused of producing Degenerate art when the Nazis came to power. They were: Heinrich Campendonk, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, Ludwig Meidner, Adolf Ferdinand Schinnerer, René Beeh, Karl Caspar, Max Unold, Conrad Felixmüller, Lyonel Feininger, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller, Erich Heckel, Richard Seewald, Christian Rohlfs, Ernst Barlach, George Grosz, Paul Klee, Emil Nolde, Alfred Kubin, Hans Meid, August Gaul, Max Slevogt, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, with the art historian Kurt Pfister as editor. • Illustration — Samson and Delilah, 1918, oils Several of his earlier works were confiscated from public collections as "degenerate art" from 1937, although he continued to teach and exhibit, and joined up with the Reichskammer der bildenden Künste (Reich Chamber of Fine Arts), a conformist government-established union that artists were obliged to join to continue their professional life.
Reinhold Pallas is recorded as having studied under Adolf Schinnerer. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Italy. Employment is recorded with Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Work by Adolf Schinnerer is recorded in the collections of Finnish National Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Print Collection and Art Museum of Estonia. Distinctions recorded are Villa Romana Prize.
Adolf Schinnerer is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation graphic designer. Recorded as painter, university teacher, illustrator, exlibrist and designer.
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1876
Adolf Schinnerer born at Schwarzenbach an der Saale.
1949
Adolf Schinnerer died on 30 January 1949.
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Schwarzenbach an der Saale.
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- 1.Oxford University Press. Schinnerer, Adolf Ferdinand. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 31 October 2011. 978-0-19-977378-7.
- 2.Bosl, Karl. Bosls bayerische Biographie. 8000 Persönlichkeiten aus 15 Jahrhunderten. Friedrich Pustet. 676. 1983. 3791707922.
- 3.National Gallery of Art, Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time), 1920, ed. Kurt Pfister
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