Henri Schmid

Born in Winterthur in 1924 and deceased in the same city in 2009, Henri Schmid developed his work as a painter through regular travels in Europe and around the Mediterranean. Trained as a lithographer-draughtsman, he also attended courses at the School of Applied Arts in Zurich, notably with Ernst Georg Rüegg and Max Gubler. In 1946, he established his studio in Zurich, before returning to live in Winterthur in 1961.

The paintings known through the holdings of his estate and private collections include landscapes, urban views, interiors and still lifes. The recorded oil paintings on canvas span several decades: Grüner Rhein and Atelier im Winter (1982), Bonnieux (1999), followed by studio compositions and still lifes painted in the 2000s. Travels in France, Italy, Spain, North Africa, Turkey and Greece nourished his subjects, while his second home on the Côte d’Azur provided him with an open-air studio from 1992 onwards.

Schmid received federal grants and grants from the Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation in 1948 and 1949, as well as the prize of the Karl-Heinrich-Ernst Foundation in Winterthur in 1976. This notice refers to the painter from Winterthur, and not to other artists named Schmid.