Paul Hermann Schoedder (1887 - 1971)
Paul Hermann Schoedder
Paul Hermann Schoedder was a German painter. In 1927 Paul Hermann Schoedder became a teacher for figure drawing and painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dortmund. In 1930, the city of Dortmund commissioned him to paint a history picture as a mural. In 1941, Schoedder took part in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich with the oil painting "Our girls make music". From 1940 he took part in the Second World War and was taken prisoner of war by the British in 1945. After the war he returned to Dortmund and worked from 1949 until his retirement in 1952 as a teacher for painting, anatomy, art history and drawing at the Dortmund School of Art. In retirement he devoted himself entirely to painting and drawing. Schoedder took part in numerous exhibitions, for example in 1922 at the annual exhibition of the Munich Secession in the Glaspalast. In 1937, the Museum for Art and Cultural History in Dortmund honored him with a special exhibition on the occasion of his 50th birthday.
| Date and place of birt: | 17 november 1887, Iserlohn, Germany |
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| Date and place of death: | 14 november 1971, Allendorf (Lumda), Germany |
| Nationality: | Germany |
| Period of activity: | XX century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Landscape painter, Painter |
| Genre: | Cityscape, Flower still life, Genre art, History painting, Landscape painting, Still life |
| Art style: | Realism |
| Technique: | Fresco, Oil, Oil on panel, Oil on plywood |
