Christian Schad. Christian Schad was a German painter and photographer.
He was associated with the Dada and the New Objectivity movements. Considered as a group, Schad's portraits form an extraordinary record of life in Vienna and Berlin in the years following World War I. Schad was born in Miesbach, Upper Bavaria, to a prosperous lawyer who supported him for nearly half his life.
He studied at the art academy in Munich in 1913. A self-inflicted heart defect allowed the pacifist to flee to Switzerland in 1915 to avoid service in World War I, settling first in Zürich sharing his apartment with Walter Serner, with whom he launched Sirius, a literary review.
He was witness of the foundation of Dada at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. But he did show little interest in Dada, which he conceived as a child of expressionism, and moved to Geneva in the very same year.
In 1919 he created early photograms on printing-out-paper later called Schadographs. From 1920 to 1925, he spent some years in Naples. Having married Marcella Arcangeli, the daughter of a Roman professor, he settled in Naples where he attended painting and drawing courses at the art academy. In 1927 the family emigrated to Vienna. His paintings of this period are closely associated with the New Objectivity movement. In the late twenties, he returned to Berlin and settled there. Schad became interested in Eastern philosophy around 1930, and h
He was associated with the Dada and the New Objectivity movements. Considered as a group, Schad's portraits form an extraordinary record of life in Vienna and Berlin in the years following World War I. Schad was born in Miesbach, Upper Bavaria, to a prosperous lawyer who supported him for nearly half his life.
He studied at the art academy in Munich in 1913. A self-inflicted heart defect allowed the pacifist to flee to Switzerland in 1915 to avoid service in World War I, settling first in Zürich sharing his apartment with Walter Serner, with whom he launched Sirius, a literary review.
He was witness of the foundation of Dada at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. But he did show little interest in Dada, which he conceived as a child of expressionism, and moved to Geneva in the very same year.
In 1919 he created early photograms on printing-out-paper later called Schadographs. From 1920 to 1925, he spent some years in Naples. Having married Marcella Arcangeli, the daughter of a Roman professor, he settled in Naples where he attended painting and drawing courses at the art academy. In 1927 the family emigrated to Vienna. His paintings of this period are closely associated with the New Objectivity movement. In the late twenties, he returned to Berlin and settled there. Schad became interested in Eastern philosophy around 1930, and h
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