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Theo Scharf

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Latitude
-37.814167
Longitude
144.963056
Start Date
1899-01-01
End Date
1988-01-01

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ID
tb912f

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Birth Place
Melbourne, Vic., Australia
Biography
painter, etcher and art teacher, was born in Melbourne of German parents, the musicians Eduard Scharf and Olive de Hugard. A child prodigy in both painting and music (his portrait, Boy with Palette by Violet Teague , is in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT), he performed (on violin and piano?), painted and taught art in Australia and Germany. (He travelled with his parents in Germany after WWI, then was professor of painting and drawing at the Munich Academy of Fine Art in 1934-35). Not aligned with the allies during WWII, the paintings he did as a war artist for Hitler (now destroyed or lost) are believed to have been generic records of battles, rather than propaganda (see T. Ingram). After returning to Australia for six years (1950-56), he went back to Munich. According to Ingram, interest in Scharf’s etchings was kindled in the early 1920s when Dame Nellie Melba brought a set back to Australia. His chef d’oeuvre is the series of 20 works Night in a City (1922-23), which evokes the spirit of Weimar Germany with something of the acerbic wit of Georg Grosz. (A full copy was exhibited for sale late in 1966 at Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne.) Included are: 'Restaurant I’ n.d., 'Concert’ 1922, 'Theater’ (no.12) and 'Restaurant III’. Also 'Prizefight’ 1923 (Josef Lebovic and/or Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney) and 'All Souls Day’ (old people visiting a cemetery) n.d. (ill. Lebovic & Warner, Fifty Years , cat.71). This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography. Writers: Staff Writer Date written: 1996 Last updated: 2007
Born
b. 1899
Summary
Painter, etcher and art teacher, Melbourne-born Theo Scharf was a professor of painting and drawing at the Munich Academy of Fine Art in 1934-35. He was also a war artist for Hitler, but his paintings have since been lost or destroyed. According to information given by him to this editor in 1980 in Feldafing, his main war artist work was done in German field hospitals in Russia.
Gender
Male
Died
1988
Age at death
89