Robert Schade (1861 – 1912) was an American painter.

Biography

Schade was son of the

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n immigrants ''August'' and ''Augusta Schade'', who settled down in

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in 1863. At the age of 15 he started his studies of art at Milwaukee Art Association, where he was taught by Henry Vianden, who inspired him like

Robert Koehler Robert Koehler (November 28, 1850 – April 23, 1917) was a German-born Painting, painter and art teacher who spent most of his career in the United States. Biography Koehler was born in Hamburg; his family spelled their name Köhler until ...

and Carl von Marr to finish his studies at

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. When he returned to the United States, he taught at the Milwaukee art school and became a member of the American Panorama Company in 1885.

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was one of his trainees.''http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo13/steichen.htm''
(englisch). Schade was founding member of the ''Society of Milwaukee Artists'', today ''Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors''. He painted predominantly portraits,

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s and landscapes. One of his best known paintings shows the

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, that he witnessed at the age of 11.''Peshtigo Fire Still Life (1908)''
(Biography).

References

19th-century American painters 19th-century American male artists American male painters 20th-century American painters American landscape painters People from Tarrytown, New York 1861 births 1912 deaths Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni American people of German descent 20th-century American male artists {{US-painter-stub