Walter Schulz-Matan (1889 - 1965)
Walter Schulz-Matan
Walter Schulz-Matan was a German painter of magic realism. After training as a decorative painter, the Thuringian Walter Schulz-Matan led a life of wanderings across Europe. After military service and captivity in World War I, he lived in Munich from 1919, maintained his first studio in Munich-Schwabing from 1920 and worked as a stage painter for the "Neue Bühne". From 1930 he was one of the co-founders of the exhibition group 7 Munich painters. Schulz-Matan was also a member of the Neue Secession and the Deutscher Künstlerbund. In the New Objectivity art movement, Schulz-Matan developed his own artistic specificity in the Magic Realism movement. During the Second World War he worked as a war painter in France, then again as an artist in Munich.
| Date and place of birt: | 23 september 1889, Apolda, Germany |
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| Date and place of death: | 5 september 1965, Schiers, Switzerland |
| Nationality: | Germany, Switzerland |
| Period of activity: | XX century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Landscape painter, Marine painter, Painter, Portraitist |
| Genre: | Flower still life, Landscape painting, Marine art, Portrait, Rural landscape, Still life |
| Art style: | Magic realism, New Objectivity, Realism |
| Technique: | Gouache, Watercolor, Сhalk |
