Emil Schultz-Riga (1872 – 2 November 1931) was a Baltic Germans-Russian landscape painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting. He also worked with portraits and floral still lifes.
Life
Born in Daugavpils, Russian Empire, Schultz-Riga studied from 1892 to 1895 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. There, Heinrich Lauenstein, Hugo Crola, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen, Arthur Kampf and Adolf Schill were his teachers. Schultz-Riga was a member of the artists association Malkasten. Together with Hans Deiker [de], Theodor Groll, Carl Ernst Bernhard Jutz and others, Schultz-Riga founded the Novembergruppe. He was represented at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung in 1909.
Schultz-Riga died in Düsseldorf.
References
- Klaus F. Müller: Park und Villa Haas - Historismus, Kunst und Lebensstil. P. 103. E-Book ISBN 978-3-86468-765-5, 2013.
- Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Verzeichnis der ausländischen Künstler und Künstlerinnen. Nationalität, Aufenthalt und Studium in Düsseldorf. In Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9, vol. 1, p. 439
- Bettina Baumgärtel: Chronik der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1815–2011. In Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.), vol. 1, p. 375 (PDF Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine)
- Baltische Monatsschrift [de] , vol. 62, Verlag G. Löffler, Riga 1931, p. IV
External links
- Emil Schultz-Riga, auction result on artnet.de
- 19th-century German painters
- 19th-century German male artists
- 20th-century German painters
- 20th-century German male artists
- German landscape painters
- German portrait painters
- German still life painters
- Baltic-German people from the Russian Empire
- 1872 births
- 1931 deaths
- People from Daugavpils
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the German Empire