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b. 1915 | German
Christian Th. Schütz
Düsseldorf Painter of Winter Forests and Landscapes
Christian Theodor Schütz was born in Düsseldorf on 6 August 1915. After grammar school he studied at the Düsseldorf school of applied arts (Schule für angewandte Kunst) from 1935 to 1937 and then, in 1937–38, at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Stettin as a pupil of Dr Kolnatz. These facts come from the printed label, in German, French, Dutch and English, that he attached to the back of his paintings, which also lists exhibitions in Paris, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Bern and Ottawa.
He painted landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school: winter forests at sunset, snowy tracks with figures, birch woods and cottages, keyed to a single warm light and drawn with a fine brush.
His pictures were widely sold in Germany and abroad in the post-war decades and appear regularly in European sales. The date of his death has not been published; he should not be confused with the nineteenth-century Düsseldorf painter Theodor Christoph Schüz (1830–1900), whose name is sometimes spelt the same way.
