Felix Schwarmstädt

Felix Schwarmstädt, or Schwormstädt was a German painter, draftsman and illustrator born in Hamburg in 1870. He mainly worked in München. He went to the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste (National Academy of Visual Arts) in Karlsruhe and the Academy of Fine Arts in München. There, he was a pupil of Carl van Marr, an American-born German painter and professor at the Academy. He began his artistic career as book illustrator and in the First World War worked as a cartoonist for the newspaper Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung. Around 1920, he worked as a professor at the Bauhaus in Weimar. As a painter, Schwarmstädt specialised in genre- and oriental scenes. He died in 1938 in Locarno, Switzerland.