Adolph Shulz

(American, 1869-1963)

Adolph Shulz was born in Delvan, Wisconsin and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League in New York with William Merritt Chase, and in Paris. During the summers, Shulz would return to Delvan to paint. He married Ada Walter Shulz in 1894 and together they became the original settlers of the Brown County art colony after moving to Nashville, Indiana in 1917. He exhibited his work from 1925 to 1942 at the Hoosier Salon and also at the Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee Art Institute, and the Brown County Gallery Association.

Studied

AIC; ASL; Académie Julian, Paris with J.P. Laurens, Lefebvre, and Constant; Munich.

Member

Chicago Palette and Chisel Club; Brown County Galleries Assn.; Chicago Galleries Assn.; Sarasota AA; Florida Fed. Art.

Exhibited

AIC, 1900 (prize), 1904 (prize), 1908 (prize); Milwaukee AI, 1918 (med); Brown County Galleries Assn., 1937 (prize); Hoosier Salon, 1936 (prize); Chicago Galleries Assoc; H. Leiber Co., Indianapolis; Milwaukee Art Soc. Gallery, Dec., 1914 (with wife Ada and son Walter).

Work

Indianapolis Mus. Art (The Turkey Roost,"1918)

Resources

WW59; WW47; Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 273 (with repro.); Who Was Who in American Art : 400 Years of Artists in America (3023); askart.com.