JULIUS WOLFGANG SCHÜLEIN* ( Munich 1881 - 1970 New York )

JULIUS WOLFGANG SCHÜLEIN* ( Munich 1881 - 1970 New York )
Net patchers, 1912
lithograph/paper 17,8 x 24,8 cm
sheet dimension 40 x 45 cm
signed JW Schülein, signed in plate J. W. Schülein

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Julius Wolfgang Schülein was a German-American painter who came from a wealthy Jewish family. Schülein studied law in Munich and Berlin until 1904, but decided to become a painter and, after graduating in Munich, attended Moritz Heymann's art school. From 1906, he studied under Hugo von Habermann at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. He then worked as a freelance painter. From 1908 to 1930, his apartment and studio were right next door to Thomas Mann. From 1908 to 1913, Schülein lived in Paris, where he attended the La Palette art school and met the painter and photographer Suzanne Carvallo (1883–1972), whom he married in 1912. After returning to Munich, Schülein was one of the founders of the Munich New Secession (MNS) in 1913. He developed a painting style somewhere between Impressionism and Expressionism and primarily created landscapes. From 1913 to 1914, Schülein lived with his wife on her grandfather's estate in Catalonia. Spared from military service, Schülein continued to work as a painter in the Bavarian foothills of the Alps, on Lake Garda, and in Venice. In the 1920s, the monthly magazine "Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration" published pictures by Schülein. From 1930 to 1933, Schülein lived in Berlin and wrote essays for "Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration." Heinrich Stinnes collected Schülein's works. After the Nazis seized power, Schülein and his family fled to France. In 1937, the Nazis confiscated several of his works from public collections as part of their "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) campaign. In 1939, Schülein retreated to St. Guénolé in Brittany to paint. His wife remained in Paris. In September 1939, he was first taken to the Camp de la Chaume, an internment camp for "enemy aliens, " and subsequently interned repeatedly. With an affidavit from his American cousin Hermann Schülein, Schülein and his family fled to New York in 1941. From 1948 onwards, Schülein travelled regularly to Europe, especially France and Italy. In 1967, he completed his memoirs (Hoffnungslosigkeit. Rückblick und Selbstporträt. Berger & Söhne, Horn, 1968). Works and parts of Schülein's estate are located, among other places, in the Leo Baeck Institute Art and Objects Collection, and parts of his written estate are in the Munich City Library (Monacensia). Further artists and styles: Landscape, Veduta, Portrait, Oil painting, Winter, Ski

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