Christian Schad

Christian Schad (1894, 1982) was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement, renowned for his precise, hyperrealistic portraits that captured the decadent and psychologically intense atmosphere of Weimar-era Germany and 1920s Vienna and Rome. He was also a pioneering figure in early avant-garde photography, credited with independently developing cameraless photographic prints known as 'Schadographs' around 1918, contemporaneously with Man Ray's Rayographs. His works command significant attention at major auction houses, with his coolly erotic and meticulously rendered figurative paintings among the most sought-after examples of German interwar art.