Herbert Gustave Schmalz
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Herbert Gustave Schmalz, known as Herbert Carmichael after 1918 (1 June 1856, Newcastle – 24 November 1935, London)[1] was an English painter.
Life
[edit]Schmalz was born at Ryton, North East England in 1856, the son of Margaret and Gustave Schmalz. His father was a merchant, and later Prussian consul in Newcastle upon Tyne, whilst his mother was the eldest daughter of painter James Wilson Carmichael.[2] He received a conventional education in painting, first at the South Kensington Art School and later at the Royal Academy of Arts, where he studied with Frank Dicksee, Stanhope Forbes and Arthur Hacker. He perfected his studies in Antwerp at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.[citation needed]
After his return to London he made a name for himself as a history painter, with a style influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and orientalism. In 1884 he successfully exhibited his painting Too Late at the Royal Academy. After a voyage to Jerusalem in 1890 he made a series of paintings with New Testament topics, with Return from Calvary (1891) one of the best known.[citation needed]
After 1895 Schmalz increasingly painted portraits. In 1900 he held a big solo exhibition named "A Dream of Fair Women" in the Fine Art Society in Bond Street.[citation needed]
Schmalz was friends with William Holman Hunt, Val Prinsep and Frederic Leighton. In 1918, after Germany was defeated in World War I, he adopted his mother's maiden name.[3]
Other selected paintings
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Zenobia (1888) -
Imogen (1888) -
A Fair Beauty (1889) -
Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii (1890) -
Rabboni (1896)
Further reading
[edit]- Trevor Blakemore, The art of Herbert Schmalz: with monographs on certain pictures by various writers, and 64 illustrations (London: 1911)[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Herbert Gustave Schmalz (1856–1935): Ninon, ninon, que fait tu de la vie?, Christie's.
- ^ Hall, Marshall (2005). The Artists of Northumbria (Third ed.). Bristol: Art Dictionaries. pp. 70–71. ISBN 0953260992.
- ^ Apollo, Volume 23 (1976), p. 291.
- ^ Trevor Blakemore, royalacademy.org.uk, accessed 23 July 2021
External links
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Media related to Herbert Schmalz at Wikimedia Commons
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