May might have amassed one of the most impressive collections of twentieth-century German art on the planet ... in addition to the realistic painting mastered by Schad, ...

Laserstein’s paintings combine the psychological qualities of New Objectivity painters like Christian Schad with the precise naturalism, contour lines, and smooth paint application of the 16th-century ...

Christian Schad was a German artist known for his painting ... Born in 1894 in Miesbach, Upper Bavaria, Germany, he studied at the art academy in Munich. Schad lived in Aschaffenburg, Germany. He was ...