Emil Schultz-Riga

Emil Schultz-Riga (1872 – 2 November 1931) was a Baltic Germans-Russian landscape painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting. He also worked with portraits and floral still lifes.

Life
Dahlias Flower Still Life, Villa Haas collection.

Born in Daugavpils, Russian Empire, Schultz-Riga studied from 1892 to 1895 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. There, Heinrich Lauenstein, Hugo Crola, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen, Arthur Kampf and Adolf Schill were his teachers.[1] Schultz-Riga was a member of the artists association Malkasten. Together with Hans Deiker, Theodor Groll, Carl Ernst Bernhard Jutz and others, Schultz-Riga founded the Novembergruppe.[2] He was represented at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung in 1909.

Schultz-Riga died in Düsseldorf.[3]

References
  1. Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Verzeichnis der ausländischen Künstler und Künstlerinnen. Nationalität, Aufenthalt und Studium in Düsseldorf. In Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9, vol. 1, p. 439
  2. Bettina Baumgärtel: Chronik der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1815–2011. In Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.), vol. 1, p. 375 (PDF)
  3. Baltische Monatsschrift , vol. 62, Verlag G. Löffler, Riga 1931, p. IV
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