émile P A Schneider (1873-1947) Country Road

Émile Philippe Auguste Schneider (1873-1947) Country road, oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm
With frame 80.5 x 70.5 x 7.5 cm
Signed lower right

Émile Philippe Auguste Schneider was a French painter and designer. Coming from a Protestant family, he began his artistic studies with the portrait painter Léon Hornecker then, from 1890 to 1892, he attended the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg. During this period he also worked as an illustrator for the newspaper Meiselocker D'r. from Strasbourg. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, in the studio of the Greek painter Nikolaos Gysis. His first exhibition dates from 1894. Back in Strasbourg in 1899, he opened a workshop which became the meeting place for the artistic group Saint-Nicolas, named after the street where the workshop was located. The group was openly turned towards Paris and the Alsatian artists who lived there. He held numerous exhibitions in Strasbourg, before and after the First World War. Schneider mainly painted views of Strasbourg, genre scenes, but took a liking to the Marines after many trips to France. In 1905, he enrolled in the faculty of the School of Specialization in Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, where he taught drawing from nature, still lifes and casts. From 1918 to 1920, he was acting director of the school. The successor François-Rupert Carabin finds the school too turned towards Germany and begins an important internal reorganization, in particular by purging the professors named by Schneider, who are largely resulting from his old group of Saint-Nicolas. At the outbreak of World War II, he took refuge in Hohwald, officially retired from the School in 1940. He died in 1947 in Paris.

The paint is in very good condition.

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