Biography from Boston Art Club:
| Albert Felix Schmitt was considered one of the top students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and was regarded as one of the finer proponents of the Boston School style of painting at the turn of the 20th Century. He executed and exhibited very standard themes at that time, women in Arts and Crafts interiors with Oriental themes.
In the first decade of the 20th Century, however, Schmitt began to loosen his brushwork and style. He was one of the landmark creators of what became the early Boston Modernist style. This was an abreviation of the chromatics of the Boston School.
Schmitt was called away from the United States by the offer to become the Marquese della Tore Alta, the court painter for the Vatican. He accepted this post, left for Europe and never returned here to live.
Schmitt spent the remainder of his life living in Biarritz, France, where he died in 1953. |
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Albert Schmitt is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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