Hugo Schnars-Alquist
Carl Wilhelm Hugo Schnars-Alquist (October 29, 1855 – August 20, 1939) was a German painter who painted scenes of the sea. His family were merchants and he started working as a merchant himself. Schnars-Alquist was a self-taught painter.[1] In 1886 he was a student of Hans Gude at the Berlin Art Academy. In 1893 he was the German representative for the fine arts at the World's Columbian Exposition.[2] Schnars-Alquist made many sea voyages which taught him how to paint the sea at different Latitudes and from rough sea to calm. He was a member of the jury at the Chicago and Melbourne art exhibitions.[3] He received a Gold medal at Melbourne.[3] Schnars-Alquist was a member of the Hamburg Geographical Society.[4] He also belonged to the Institute for Maritime Studies at the University of Berlin.[4]
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- ↑ City Art Museum of St. Louis, Special Exhibition Catalogue, Series 1912 No. 2 (February 4, 1912), p. 121
- ↑ The Official Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, May 1st to October 30th, 1893: A Reference Book of Exhibitors and Exhibits, and of the Officers and Members of the World's Columbian Commission. W.B. Conkey Company, 1893. p. 127.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The New International Encyclopaedia, Volume 20, ed. Frank Moore Colby; Talcott Williams (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1918), p. 552
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dictionary of German Biography, ed. Walther Killy (Munich: K.G. Saur, 2005), pp. 46–47
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