From 24 September 2025 to 1 February 2026, the Städel Museum presents the exhibition “Carl Schuch and France”
Supply: Städel Museum · Picture: Carl Schuch, The Rhododendron Basket, 1885/86
“Leibl is revered, Trübner is highly esteemed, but Schuch is loved.” The Städel Museum is devoting an exhibition to Carl Schuch (1846–1903), the best-known “unknown” protagonist of late nineteenth -century portray. Throughout his lifetime, he was hardly seen by the general public, however shortly after his dying Schuch’s work obtained nice consideration from critics, museums and collectors, solely to be forgotten once more. The Städel Museum traces the fascination of Schuch’s portray and exhibits his multifaceted engagement with fashionable French artwork.
Carl Schuch was a cosmopolitan: educated in Vienna, he travelled all through Europe earlier than settling in Paris in 1882, the place he skilled the best section of his inventive profession. Schuch remodeled his sensory impressions into pure portray, characterised by refined tonal gradations and sonorous color harmonies. In the summertime, he devoted himself to plein air portray. Within the studio, nonetheless, nonetheless life grew to become his most important subject of experimentation. He used a hard and fast repertoire of motifs in ever new mixtures to check totally different color results. He was excited about complementary contrasts and the best way colors modified with mild and shadow, in addition to in color mixtures and new colourants. Schuch repeatedly utilized the extraordinary portray approach he had developed for nonetheless lifes to his landscapes.
The Städel Museum is exhibiting Schuch’s work alongside main works of French artwork from main museums and personal collections. Schuch intensively studied the work of his function fashions, together with German contemporaries comparable to Wilhelm Trübner and Wilhelm Leibl, and above all his French contemporaries Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet and Claude Monet. By juxtaposing his works with theirs, Schuch’s autonomous portray model turns into clear. The most recent art-technological analysis gives insights into the genesis of his work. The free use of color and Schuch’s unmistakable handwriting make his portray a rewarding discovery.
