Robert Sterl

Robert Sterl studied at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is visual arts. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Dresden. Employment is recorded with Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Work by Robert Sterl is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister, Alte Nationalgalerie and Neue Nationalgalerie.

Sterl was born in Großdobritz, now part of Dresden, the son of a stonemason. From 1881 to 1888, he attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Leon Pohle and Julius Scholtz, later becoming a master student of Ferdinand Pauwels. A stay at the artists' colony in Goppeln near Bannewitz introduced him to impressionism and plein air painting. After leaving Pauwels' studio, he worked as a landscape painter and portraitist and, until 1904, operated a private painting school for women. In 1893, he became one of the founding members of the Dresden Secession. He was appointed a Professor at the Academy in 1906, where he taught until 1931, and became an associate member of the Berlin Secession in 1909. From 1913 to 1930, he was a member of the Dresdner Galeriekommission and, from 1920, had a seat on the Gallery Advisory Board, both of which positions enabled him to help young artists. When Gotthardt Kuehl died in 1915, Sterl took over his Master Class. During World War I, he worked as a war painter, on the Western Front in 1915 and the southern front in the Dolomites in 1917. After the war, he bought a house in Struppen and built a spacious studio there.

• Illustration — Portrait of Wastl (1903) • Illustration — Portrait of Christian Georg Schmorl (1921) • Illustration — Portrait of Arthur Nikisch (1910) • Illustration — The Quarrymen (1911) • Illustration — Dredging the Elbe (1905) • Illustration — Harvest Drink (1903)

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