Carl Strathmann

After being dismissed for a "lack of talent", he enrolled at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar where, from 1888 to 1889, he studied in the master class taught by Leopold von Kalckreuth.

[1] When Kalckreuth left, he did as well; moving to Munich, where he lived a Bohemian lifestyle as a free-lance artist, and met the painter Lovis Corinth, who became a lifelong friend and associate.

In this monumental painting (6x9 feet) Salammbô, a high priestess of the Carthaginians, is shown caressing a snake, as part of a ritual sacrifice.

[2] Around 1900, he shared a studio with Alexander von Salzmann [de] and Adelbert Niemeyer, and gained a reputation as a caricaturist, when a portfolio of his drawings was published by Edgar Hanfstaengl.

In 1904, together with René Reinicke, Hans Beat Wieland, Rudolf Köselitz, Wilhelm Jakob Hertling, and several others, he co-founded the Munich Watercolorists' Association.