Paul Schroeter

Paul Schroeter, or Schroter, (26 October 1866 - 1946), was a German painter and etcher.
Life
Born in Kepno Schroeter initially studied in the early 1880s at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, where he was a student of Eduard von Gebhardt, Peter Janssen and Adolf Schill. Here, alongside Fritz Overbeck and other young painters of the academy, he joined the Tartarus student association, which also published irregular magazines in which he participated with illustrations. It was also here that he met the painter Fritz Mackensen, who was already well-known at the time. The painter Peter Philippi described 'Tartarus' as "next to the great Malkasten, [... it] was a [...] refreshing [group or] union of young, seriously aspiring artists, among others Robert Engels, Karl Krumbacher, Ludwig Keller, Otto Modersohn, Robert Weise, Paul Schroter, Adelbert Niemeyer, Ernst Christian Pfannschmidt.
From Dusseldorf, Schroeter moved to the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and joined the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft. Active in Munich since 1893, he became a member of the Munich Secession with participation in the spring exhibition in May 1894. Study trips took him to Holland, Belgium and Spain and for a short time he stayed in the , where he met Carl Bantzer, Georg Burmester and Wilhelm Thielmann. From 1898 to 1901, Schroeter lived in Hamburg and became friends with and , the co-founders of the Hamburgischer Kunstlerklub. As an illustrator, he produced commissioned works for the Munich magazine Jugend: 1898 Haideblume and Dornroschen und die Alte and 1913 a Vignette.
He had a close friendship with Mackensen, Modersohn and Overbeck, and they persuaded him to come to the still young Kunstlerkolonie Worpswede. With his wife Grete and their children, Schroeter moved to Worpswede in 1901, and from there to Horn-Lehe around 1904, where he became a member of the Deutscher Kunstlerbund. There, in northern Germany, he painted portraits, landscapes and interior pictures with mostly rural themes. The reviews were not always positive, as the magazine Die Kunst wrote in 1903:
In 1908, Schroeter left Bremen, moved to Berlin, was a member of the Verein Berliner Kunstler, and lived there in Lichterfelde.
Schroeter was a still life, landscape, genre and portrait painter as well as a graphic artist. Many of his works are in private collections. Most of his work were lost during the Second World War.
Work
Doppelportrat vom Bauernball.
Drei Feldarbeiter beim Mahen mit der Sense (1901)
Frau am Nahtisch (1901)
Die Frau des Kunstlers mit Tochter Bettina auf dem Arm (1902)
Geschichtenerzahler (1914).
Hauser und Kirchturm in Relingen (1943)
Related pages
German art
References
Further reading
Schroeter, Paul. In Hans Vollmer : Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Created by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Vol. 30: Scheffel-Siemerding. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1936.
Roland Demme: Agitation durch Friedrich Bindewald und sein Vorbild Dr. Otto Bockel gegen die judische Bevolkerung in der Wilhelminischen Epoche und ihre Auswirkungen bis heute. University Press, Kassel 2015, .
Other websites
Biografie Paul Schroeter
Paul K. Alfred Schroeter (1866-1946).
German painters
1866 births
1946 deaths