{"id":9239,"date":"2011-04-26T03:16:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T02:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9239"},"modified":"2011-04-26T03:16:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T02:16:17","slug":"loving-boys-by-christian-schad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/04\/26\/loving-boys-by-christian-schad\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving Boys by Christian Schad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weimarart.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/christian-schad.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/schad.jpg\" alt=\"schad.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Loving Boys (1929).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>German artist Christian Schad (1894\u20131982) wasn&#8217;t gay but his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Objectivity\" target=\"_blank\">New Objectivity<\/a> paintings were often overtly sexual, as with his most well-known work, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/special\/glitter\/view_1.asp?item=12&amp;view=l\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Self-Portrait with Model<\/em><\/a> (1927). This drawing was posted in a piece about Schad at <a href=\"http:\/\/weimarart.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/christian-schad.html\" target=\"_blank\">Weimar Art<\/a>, and, given the place and period from which it originates, wouldn&#8217;t be out of place on the cover of <em>Christopher and His Kind<\/em>, Christopher Isherwood&#8217;s memoir about gay life in pre-war Berlin which was recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00ztfl9\" target=\"_blank\">dramatised by the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more about Schad&#8217;s work and erotic concerns there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2003-05-27\/art\/lewd-awakening\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lewd Awakening: Rediscovering a German Connoisseur of Sex<\/em><\/a> at <em>Village Voice<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tendreams.org\/schad.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ten Dreams<\/a> has a gallery with more of his paintings.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-gay-artists-archive\/\">The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving Boys (1929). German artist Christian Schad (1894\u20131982) wasn&#8217;t gay but his New Objectivity paintings were often overtly sexual, as with his most well-known work, Self-Portrait with Model (1927). This drawing was posted in a piece about Schad at Weimar Art, and, given the place and period from which it originates, wouldn&#8217;t be out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/04\/26\/loving-boys-by-christian-schad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loving Boys by Christian Schad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,5,19],"tags":[2490,2331],"class_list":["post-9239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-gay","category-television","tag-christian-schad","tag-christopher-isherwood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2p1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}