Hugo Schnars-Alquist [SEP] date of birth
Hugo Schnars-Alquist
Carl Wilhelm Hugo Schnars-Alquist (29 October 1855 - 20 August 1939) was a German art collector and painter of maritime scenes.
Early life.
Schnars-Alquist was the son of a merchant and himself first a merchant.
Art career.
Schnars-Alquist formed a trade school in his native city in drawing and painting. Due to the success of different seascapes, which immediately found buyers, he became about 1884 and 1886 a student of Hans Gude at the Berlin Academy
to avoid the annual salon - the " Great Berlin Art Exhibition ". The Free Union of the XXIV was founded in Munich and exhibited under this name in Berlin.
A revision of the statutes of the General German Art Cooperative by Anton von Werner and Hugo Schnars-Alquist held in October 1892 still the business association together. But in November 1892 it came to a scandal when an exhibition of the works of Edvard Munch was this time closed by a majority of the members of the Association of Berlin Artists and Munch's