Sascha Schneider

Rudolph Karl Alexander Schneider, commonly known as Sascha Schneider (21 September 1870 – 1927), was a German painter.

Bibliography

Schneider was born in Saint Petersburg. During his childhood his family went in 1881 to Zürich. After the death of his father Schneider lived in Dresden, where he was student at the Kreuzgymnasium. He studied since 1889 art at "Dresdner Kunstakademie". 1903 he met Karl May. He became painter and illustrator of Karl May first books (for example "Durch die Wüste", "Durchs wilde Kurdistan", "Am Rio de la Plata"). In 1904 Schneider became professor at "Großherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstschule Weimar". In Weimar he lived together with the painter Hellmuth Jahn. [ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, "Mann für Mann", pages 636, 637 ] Jahn started extortion by § 175. Schneider fleed to Italy, where at that time homosexuality was legal. In Italy Schneider met painter Robert Spies. Together they made a journey through the Caucasus Mountains. He then traveled back to Germany and lived for six months in Leipzig and then he went back to Italy, Florence. When the First World War started Schneider traveled again back to Germany and after 1914 during war Schneider lived in Hellerau, near Leipzig. He co-founded after 1918 an institut "Kraft-Kunst" for sports. [ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, "Mann für Mann", pages 636, 637 ]

Schneider died in 1927 in Swinemünde. He had a Diabetes mellitus collapse on a seatour in the havre of Swinemünde. He got thirsty and drank poisened water. He was buried on the cementary in Loschwitz, Germany.

Works

* "Mein Gestalten und Bilden". 1912. autobiography

Literature

* Hans-Gerd Röder: "Sascha Schneider - ein Maler für Karl May". Karl-May-Verlag. Bamberg 1995. 3-7802-0280-8.
* Rolf Günther / Dr. Klaus Hoffmann: "Sascha Schneider & Karl May — Eine Künstlerfreundschaft". Karl-May-Stiftung. Radebeul 1989.
* Hansotto Hatzig: "Karl May und Sascha Schneider. Dokumente einer Freundschaft. "Beiträge zur Karl-May-Forschung". Edition 2. Bamberg 1967.
* Annelotte Range: "Zwischen Max Klinger und Karl May". Karl-May-Verlag. Bamberg 1999. 3-7802-3007-0.
* Felix Zimmermann: Sascha Schneider. Verlag der Schönheit. Dresden 1924.
* Sascha Schneider: "Titelzeichnungen zu den Werken Karl Mays". Verlag von Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld. Freiburg. 1905.

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External links

* [https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?index=tit&term=&operator=and&index=num&term=11910637X&operator=and&index=num&term=&operator=and&index=sw&term=&operator=and&index=jhr&term=&index=wvn&reihe=none&jahrgang=08&heft=*&method=enhancedSearch Sascha Schneider] in German National Library
* [http://www.bauerart.com/german_art3.html Bauerart:Painting by Schneider]