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Building Bodies: The Art of Sascha Schneider Lecture with Christiane Starck

This upcoming lecture will focus on Sascha Schneider (1970-1927) as painter, sculptor and graphic artist. It will give an overview about the historical circumstances which influenced the life and works of Schneider.

CStarkStarck will focus in particular on his ideas and his revolutionary way of living. Schneider was an “enfant terrible” of the German symbolistic art scene at the turn of the century. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, he started in the 1890s picturing the dark sides of human imagination, criticizing despotism and was influenced by the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche.

As an artist, he focused on the beauty of the male nude. Schneider never covered the fact that he was gay and considered himself a social outsider in more than one ways – as an artist and as a gay man. After being threatened with blackmail, he felt forced to leave Germany for Italy and developed new ideas concerning the change of society through art. These ideas climaxed in the founding of the Kraft-Kunst-Institut (Strength-Art-Institute) after World War I in Dresden, Germany. The artistic evolution will show the connections of this unconventional artist and his art with our times.

Christiane Starck studied art history and archaeology of the Roman provinces at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany. Starck graduated in 2009 with a master’s and will publish her Ph.D. thesis about the artist Sascha Schneider in 2014.











When: Thu., Nov. 21, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Where: Leslie-Lohman Museum
26 Wooster St.
212-431-2609
Price: Free
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This upcoming lecture will focus on Sascha Schneider (1970-1927) as painter, sculptor and graphic artist. It will give an overview about the historical circumstances which influenced the life and works of Schneider.

CStarkStarck will focus in particular on his ideas and his revolutionary way of living. Schneider was an “enfant terrible” of the German symbolistic art scene at the turn of the century. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, he started in the 1890s picturing the dark sides of human imagination, criticizing despotism and was influenced by the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche.

As an artist, he focused on the beauty of the male nude. Schneider never covered the fact that he was gay and considered himself a social outsider in more than one ways – as an artist and as a gay man. After being threatened with blackmail, he felt forced to leave Germany for Italy and developed new ideas concerning the change of society through art. These ideas climaxed in the founding of the Kraft-Kunst-Institut (Strength-Art-Institute) after World War I in Dresden, Germany. The artistic evolution will show the connections of this unconventional artist and his art with our times.

Christiane Starck studied art history and archaeology of the Roman provinces at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany. Starck graduated in 2009 with a master’s and will publish her Ph.D. thesis about the artist Sascha Schneider in 2014.

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