Portrait of Composer Josef Matthias Hauer
1927 · Oil on wood
61 × 50.2 cm (24 × 19 3/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Christian Schad
German, 1894–1982
Miesbach, Germany
PhotographyDadaismSurrealism
Representation
None documented
10
Institutional Exhibitions
5
Works in Collection
13
Assets Indexed
3
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0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Movements
- • Dadaism
- • Surrealism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Collage and the Photo-Image
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973
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Photo Eye of the 20s
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1970
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Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Photography as Printmaking
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Edward Steichen Photography Center
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
About
Why this artist matters now
Christian Schad was a German painter and printmaker central to the development of New Objectivity in the 1920s. Working primarily in oils and adopting a sharp-focus realism, he depicted Berlin's nightlife, urban landscapes, and psychological portraits with unflinching precision. His technical mastery of glazing and his cool, detached treatment of subject matter, particularly in depicting cabaret scenes and social subjects, established him as one of the movement's defining voices. Schad's work combines formal control with an acerbic social gaze that resists sentimentality.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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