Theo Scharf b. 1899

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
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 though his paintings, which have since been lost or destroyed, were believed to have been generic records of battles, rather than propaganda.
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Citations

  • Lebovic, Josef and Warner, Sandra (compiled by) (1988), 'Fifty Years of Australian Printmaking: Sydney Long to Eric Thake’, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, NSW (12 Apr-17 May), [cat nos. 70-71].

  • (1997), '20th Anniversary Print Show’, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, NSW (12 April-/17 May), cat. nos 93-96 (no.93, 'The Wrestlers’ 1922, drypoint, and no.95 'Bal Coloniale, Paris’ 1920, engraving, stipple & etching, ill.).

See also

  • 'Boy with Palette (portrait) by Violet Teague, National Gallery of Australia (ill. Heritage)'.
  • ''All Souls Day' (old people visiting a cemetery) n.d. (ill. Lebovic & Warner, Fifty Years, cat.71)'.

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Related stub people
  • Scharf, Eduard (child of)
  • Hugard, Olive De (child of)
  • Melba, Nellie (Dame) (associate of)
  • Hitler, Adolf (associate of)
  • Grosz, Georg (associate of)
Related stub person groups
  • Munich Academy of Fine Art (associate of)
Related people
  • Teague, Violet (associate of)
Related works
  • Bal Coloniale, Paris (creator of)
  • The Wrestlers (creator of)
  • Night in a City (creator of)
Related collections
  • Public collections Munich and Madrid (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Bathurst Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
Related events
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)
  • 'Australian Prints' (exhibited at)
  • 20th Anniversary Print Show (exhibited at)