ERNST SCHALCK - 1865 - 1827

Figure mother ...

 ERNST SCHALCK - 1865 - 1827

Figure mother child and herd.

Framed, signed

Dimensions:

Interior: about 57x111 cm

Frame: about 77x131 cm

Adam Ernst Schalk, also Schalk (born March 8, 1827 in Frankfurt am Main; † August 23, 1865 there), was a German painter, draftsman and cartoonist. Schalk came from a family of artists in Frankfurt. His father was the miniaturist and portraitist Heinrich Franz Schalk (1791-1832 or 1833), his grandfather the decorative painter Johann Peter Josef Schalk († 1801). His older brother Heinrich (1825-1846).

Adam Ernst Schalk was born on March 8, 1827 in Frankfurt am Main, he died there on August 23, 1865.

Schalk came from a family of artists in Frankfurt, and his grandfather, father and brother also worked as painters. Already at the Catholic school for the selective, where he attended as a child, they noticed his artistic ability. From 1842 to 1847 he studied at the Stedel Institute of Art, then in Dusseldorf. In 1848, the year of the revolution, he returned to Frankfurt, where he made about 50 drawings and lithographs about contemporary events and people in contemporary history. A folder with twelve large format cartoons appeared in 1849/50.

It is not known if he participated in the revolution, after its failure Schalk worked as a painter of genre paintings. From 1852 he also worked on the Frankfurter Karbalzeitungen of his friend Friedrich Stolze, and from 1860 he contributed satirical cartoons to his Frankfurter Latern, which earned him fines and imprisonment from the Prussian legal system, which, however, are not enforced in the free city of Frankfurt. On August 23, 1865, Schalk died of a long-standing lung disease.