Edmund Schaefer-Osterhold (1880 - 1959)
Edmund Schaefer-Osterhold
Edmund Schaefer-Osterhold was a German graphic artist, painter and professor at art schools.
From 1897 to 1907, Schaefer-Osterhold trained at the art schools of Stuttgart and Munich and was a pupil of Friedrich von Keller at the Stuttgart Academy of Art and Carl Banzer in Dresden.
His earliest works, with their limited means of expression and delicate tonal colours, are among his most convincing creations from today's perspective. Around 1920 he created a series of eight woodcuts called Stories from the East. After the Second World War, Schäfer-Osterhold turned more to painting, and since then his formal language has focused mainly on religious themes and southern landscapes. In 1958 he designed the altar wall at the Church of the Saviour in Markwartstein.
| Date and place of birt: | 9 june 1880, Bremen, Germany |
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| Date and place of death: | 24 november 1959, Unterwössen, Germany |
| Nationality: | Germany |
| Period of activity: | XIX, XX century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Graphic artist, Painter |
| Art school / group: | Munich School |
| Genre: | Genre art, Landscape painting, Portrait, Still life |
| Art style: | Expressionism, Modern art, Naturalism |
