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Art & Culture

Artists and artists

Johannes Schmidt

* 1903 in Freiburg, † 1989 in Kirchzarten, German sculptor

1919 - 1921 Apprenticeship as a decorative painter with journeyman's examination,
Trainee at the Münsterbauhütte
after 1918 Student of Julius H. Bissier; produces utility ceramics with Bissier for the Stühlingen company Keradenta
1923 - 1924 Studies sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, under Wilhelm Gerstel
1925 - 1926 At the Dresden Academy under Karl Albiker together with Walter Schelenz
1926 Freelance sculptor in Freiburg
1928 Takes over the stone workshop of the sculptor Arnold Rickert, after his departure to Bielefeld
Friendship with Julius Bissier, with whom he shared a studio for a time; visits Brancusi in Paris
from 1931 Construction of gliders
from 1935 Engineer at the Argo aircraft works in Oschersleben/Ode
After the war, development of artistic life in Freiburg
1949 - 1973 Teaching at the Freiburg master school for sculptors and stonemasons
Portrait of the artist "Sculptor with self-portrait" 1928 by Julius Bissier
1989 died in Kirchzarten near Freiburg

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