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July 5th, 2021 
Awake Goy 
As a matter of courtesy I did not want to publish my last article here at Renegade Tribune without saying thanks to those people out there who have appreciated my work so far, and to those very few who have donated a bit of money to me over the last few years (also to those who have purchased my music recently by the way).
For this last occasion I have chosen no other than German artist Leopold Schmutzler. He became a very remarkable artist not only because he specialized in one of my favourite art subjects (i.e. beautiful women clad in sensuous attire) but also because, nearing the end of his life, his art became intrinsically associated with the Third Reich, something that eventually developed into a maligned “stigma” for him after WWII, even if he actually died in 1940.
Regardless I hope you enjoy this remarkable artist’s selection of works in the gallery below. It has been impossible for me to find the exact date for each picture this time, I guess most of these artworks were created between the 1900s and the 1930s though.
Said all this, see you someday on the other side…
Biography
Leopold Schmutzler (ᛉ 29 March 1864 – ᛦ 20 June 1940) was a Bohemian-born German painter. He specialized in portraits, semi-erotic female figures, and Rococo-style genre scenes. In his later years, he became associated with Third Reich Germany.
He was born in Stříbro (Mies in German). He was the son of a saddler and innkeeper, who also gave him his first drawing lessons. Originally, he planned to attend the Naval School of Music in Pula, but was turned down due to poor eyesight. From 1880 to 1882, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna with Christian Griepenkerl (the person who later rejected Adolf Hitler’s application to the Academy). After that, he was transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and studied with Otto Seitz. He settled there after his graduation in 1885. He also spent brief study periods in Rome and Paris.
By the turn of the century, he had become one of the busiest portrait painters in Munich. He received important commissions from the Bavarian Royal Family, but also portrayed dancers and other popular performers. In fact, one of his best-known portraits was of actress Lili Marberg (1876-1962) in the role of Salome.
His style was generally realistic with Art-Deco elements. He always paid great attention to his subject’s clothing but, conversely, also painted many nudes. In the thirties, he became a supporter of National Socialism and created a series of works that reflected the Blut und Boden ideology. In 1940, not long before his death, Arbeitsmaiden vom Felde Heimkehrend (Farm Girls Returning from the Fields) won a major award at the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung in the Haus der Kunst and was purchased by Adolf Hitler for 7,000 Reichsmarks. One of his other works Bauerntanz was bought also by Hitler for 8,000 Reichsmarks.
Leopold Schmutzler died at the age of 76 in 1940 in Munich. Schmutzler’s association with National Socialism virtually destroyed his career outside Germany, including his posthumous reputation. In spite of this his works nowadays hang in many prestigious art galleries such as the Augsburger Rathaus, the Kunsthalle Nürnberg, the Szépművészeti Múzeum in Budapest and the Frye Art Museum in Seattle. This last museum owns several works by Leopold Schmutzler which come from art collector Charles Frye (1858-1940), who was a great admirer of the artist.
Sources: German Art Gallery, askArt, Invaluable, Le Prince Lointain, artnet, and wikipedia.
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