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Christian Schad Biography
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1894 |
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Born in Miesbach, Bavaria, Germany
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1913 |
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At the Munich Art Academy he started out in Heinrich von Zügel's painting class but changed after a semester to Becker-Gundahl's class in drawing from the nude.
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1915 |
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Published "Sirius, eine Monatsschrift für Literatur and Kunst"
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1915 |
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Published a portfolio of ten woodcuts, "Christian Schad", at the Sirius press
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1916 |
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Christian Schad moved to Geneva to join the Dada movement
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1919 |
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Experimented with what he called Schadographs (photography without a camera or lenses)
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1920 |
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Abandoning Dada, Schad turned to painting his first realistic pictures
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1942 |
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Worked as a cultural critic and for the theatre
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1982 |
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Died in Stuttgart, Germany
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1915
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Munich Secession, Germany
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1915
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Kunstsalon Wolfsberg in Zurich, Switzerland
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