Robert Friedrich Karl Scholtz

Robert Friedrich Karl Scholtz (14 April 1877 – 29 May 1956) was a German expressionist portrait and landscape painter, graphic artist and draughtsman.

[2][3] Scholtz began his training in 1894 with his uncle Róbert Nádler in Budapest and continued it in Dresden with Leon Pohle.

In 1900, he went to Munich to study at the Kingliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste under Carl von Marr.

There he felt at ease among the protagonists of the Berlin Secession, especially Lovis Corinth, Eugene Spiro and Leo von König, and became a member of the same.

[5][6][8] In 1927, when Scholtz turned fifty, there was a large exhibition of his work at the Arnold Gallery in Dresden with portraits, lithographss and paintings by Jascha Heifetz, Lovis Corinth, Richard Strauss, Hans Pfitzner, Harry Liedtke, Brigitte Helm, his father and his mother.

[3] A photograph with accompanying text about Scholtz appeared in 1931 in the Reichshandbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft[10] It was probably indicative of his lifestyle from the age of fifty onwards: elegantly dressed with dog sitting in a distinguished coach.

Scholtz and his wife lived briefly at Trabenerstraße 4 and then at Bettinastraße 14 until his death at the age of 79, both in Grunewald.

Many appear several times, such as Steamship in Dry Dock (1918, Liverpool), Poplar (1911), Lady in Riding Dress (1914) and others.