art and language teacher, taught French, Italian, German, Spanish and drawing in Tasmania at the Hobart Town Classical and Commercial Academy in the late 1850s and early 1860s. He also taught drawing from his private residence, Prospect House, Elizabeth Street. In January 1863 he was drawing master at H.M. Pike’s City School, but he appears to have moved to the Hobart Town High School by July. On 30 October 1875, at Holy Trinity Church of England, G.B.W. Schuëtz, artist, aged forty-one, married Henrietta Sophia, spinster, aged twenty-nine, eldest daughter of the late Captain Pegus of the 80th Connaught Rangers.
A reference to Schuëtz as an art teacher is in a prospectus for the High School dating from about 1876 (Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts) and he was still conducting private classes in 1878. In 1879 he was teaching drawing and modern languages at the Ladies’ College at Sunderland, New Town. He also taught drawing at the Central School, Hobart, until March 1883 when 'the pupil teachers attending the Central School on Saturday morning’ presented him with a farewell address and an inkstand. On 15 January 1898 the Mercury announced that Monsieur Schuëtz had moved to Lyneham, Devonshire Square, where he was offering 'finishing lessons’ in 'modern Languages and Literature, Drawing, Painting, Practical, Plane, and Solid Geometry, Mensuration, Isometric and Orthographic Projection, Parallel, and Angular Perspective’. He died at Hobart on 8 March 1905. No art works have been identified.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
