Robert Schade

Robert Schade ( born June 11, 1861 in Tarrytown, New York, † June 24, 1912 in Milwaukee ) was an American painter.

Life

Schade was the son of the emigrant from Pomerania spouses August and Augusta pity that drew in 1863 to Milwaukee. At the age of fifteen, he began to study art at the Milwaukee Art Association, where he was taught by Henry Vianden because of his talent. As Robert Koehler and Carl von Marr, Vianden encouraged him to study in Munich at the city's Royal Academy of Fine Arts. After his return to the United States, he taught art at the school Milwaukeer and in 1885 a member of the American Panorama Company. One of his painting and drawing students was the photographer Edward Steichen. He was a founding member of the Society of Milwaukee Artists, from which the present-day Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors Association emerged.

Too bad painted mainly portraits, still lifes and landscapes. One of his most famous painting depicts the fires of Peshtigo, which he experienced in his childhood at the age of eleven years and the obvious big impressions had left with him.