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Looking Down on Nashville
Adolph Robert Shulz (1869–1963) “Looking Down on Nashville”

 

 

ShulzAdolph Shulz was born in Delevan, Wisconsin in 1869.  He spent much time hiking and sketching with his father in the Wisconsin woods.  He studied at the Chicago Art Institute and then at the Art Students League in New York with William Merritt Chase.  He returned summers to Delevan to study with John Vanderpoel who brought classes from the Chicago Art Institute.  He met his future wife Ada who had come with one of the classes in 1892.  In 1894, they married and traveled to Paris where Adolph studied portrait and landscape painting at the Julian and Colorossi academies under LeFebvre, Constant and Laurens.  In 1895, they moved to Munich, Germany and set up their own studio.  When Ada gave birth to their son, Walter, they moved back to Delevan where Adolph could pursue impressionist landscapes and raise Walter.  After reading an article about Brown County in the Chicago newspaper, Adolph made a trip there in 1900 and was completely taken with the rustic people and unspoiled beauty.  They began spending summers painting there and, along with T.C. Steele, soon spread the word to other artists about establishing an art colony.  Adolph is generally considered to be the "father" of the Brown County Art Colony and was a founding member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association in 1926.  He exhibited at the Hoosier Salon from 1925 to 1942 and also at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Milwaukee Art Institute.  Adolph decided to leave Ada in 1926 to live with one of his students, Alberta Rehm.  He accepted a teaching position at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota in 1934 where Alberta studied sculpture.  Adolph spent the last part of his life in Brown County pursuing a spiritual quest and died in 1963.

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