Emil Schultz-Riga (1872 – 2 November 1931) was a Baltic Germans-Russian landscape painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting. He also worked with portraits and floral still lifes.[1]

Life

Dahlias Flower Still Life, Villa Haas collection.

Born in Daugavpils, Russian Empire, Schultz-Riga studied from 1892 to 1895 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. There, Heinrich Lauenstein, Hugo Crola, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen, Arthur Kampf and Adolf Schill were his teachers.[2] Schultz-Riga was a member of the artists association Malkasten. Together with Hans Deiker, Theodor Groll, Carl Ernst Bernhard Jutz and others, Schultz-Riga founded the Novembergruppe.[3] He was represented at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung in 1909.

Schultz-Riga died in Düsseldorf.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Klaus F. Müller: Park und Villa Haas - Historismus, Kunst und Lebensstil. P. 103. E-Book ISBN 978-3-86468-765-5, 2013.
  2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Verzeichnis der ausländischen Künstler und Künstlerinnen. Nationalität, Aufenthalt und Studium in Düsseldorf. In Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9, vol. 1, p. 439
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel: Chronik der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1815–2011. In Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.), vol. 1, p. 375 (PDF)
  4. ↑ Baltische Monatsschrift , vol. 62, Verlag G. Löffler, Riga 1931, p. IV
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