Benno Schotz ARSA, RSA

Works

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Lily

Leib Yaffie, Esq.

Woman Resting
1933

Cherna
1933 (Circa)

Cherna
1933 (Presumed)

Anna May Wong
1933

Hugh McAlevey, Esq.
1936

James McBey, Esq.
1936

Daybreak
1936

Deborah
1937

Mother and Child
1938 (Presumed)

Mother and Child
1938 (Presumed)

The Lament
1949

Locations

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Address 65 West Regent Street Glasgow | View on map
1918 (Circa)

Address 79 West Regent Street Glasgow | View on map
1920 (Circa) - 1925 (Circa)

Address 12 St. James Terrace Glasgow | View on map
1926 (Circa) - 1929 (Circa)

Address 12 Ruskin Terrace Glasgow | View on map
1930 (Circa) - 1931 (Circa)

Address 207 West Campbell Street Glasgow | View on map
1932 (Circa) - 1950 (Circa)

Address 2 Kirklee Road Glasgow | View on map
1951 (Circa) - 1984 (Circa)

Studio located at 207 West Campbell Street Glasgow | View on map
1933 (Circa) - 1943 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Third, 1949
'The Lament'

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition, 1943
'The Lament'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
'Woman Resting'

Exhibited at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1937
1937

Exhibited at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1936
1936

Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1918 - 1985
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 66 times

Exhibited at Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland, 1938
1938

Institutional and Business Connections

Elected ARSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1933
p. xxi

Elected RSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1937
p. xxxi

Lectured at The Glasgow School of Art
1943 (Circa)
p. 8

Lectured at The Glasgow School of Art
1948

Member of The Glasgow Art Club
1920

Paid membership subscription to The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
1910 (Circa)

President of Glasgow Society of Painters and Sculptors
1919 (Circa) - 1921 (Circa)

Professor of sculpture at The Glasgow School of Art
1938 (Circa) - 1951 (Circa)
Head of Sculpture

Studied at The Glasgow School of Art
1915 (Circa) - 1917 (Circa)
Attended evening classes

Worked with Gillespie Kidd & Coia
1960 (Circa)

Personal and Professional Connections

Assistant was James Barr

In same peer group as Alexander Proudfoot
1930 (Circa) - 1957

Influenced Hannah Frank
1925 (Circa) - 1952 (Circa)
Schotz also taught her modelling at the GSA nightclasses. He encouraged her to concentrate on making sculpture, since the early 1950's she worked solely in this medium.

Nominator of Jack Antonio Coia
1938

Nominator of Phyllis Mary Bone
1939

Nominator of Norman John Forrest
1940
p. 19

Nominator of Eric Clare Telford Schilsky
1948
ARSA

Successor to Archibald C. Dawson
1938 - 1961
as Head of Sculpture at The Glasgow School of Art

Taught Ingeborg (Inge) Neufeld
1941 - 1943
At Glasgow School of Art

Sources

A Catalogue of the Permanent Collection. Volume 2, Twentieth-Century Sculpture, 1988 Ulster Museum publication
1988
p. 92

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-second Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
November 1933
p. 67

Annual Exhibition Catalogue for The Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1923
1923

Annual Report of The Glasgow School of Art 1938-39
1938
p. 2

Catalogue of The Ulster Academy of Arts Exhibition in The Municipal Arts Gallery, Botanic Gardens, Stranmillis Road Belfast, 1937
1937
p. 24

Catalogue of The Ulster Academy of Arts Exhibition in The Old Museum Buildings, 7 College Square North, Belfast, 1936
1936
p. 12, 13

Glasgow Art Club 1867-1967 Glasgow Art Club, the first hundred years
1967
p. 72

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Hugh T. Stevenson, 'Schotz, Benno (1891-1984)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/40362, accessed 21 Jan 2009]

Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland 1938 The Fine Art Section of the Empire Exhibition
1938

Prospectus of The Glasgow School of Art, Session 1943-44: War Issue
1943
p. 8

Public Sculpture of Glasgow Public Sculpture of Britain Volume Five
2002
p. 497

The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, MCMXLIX, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Third
1949
p. 50

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Catalogue, 1943
1943
p. 25

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 4, R-Z
1991
p.121

The Royal Scottish Academy Nomination Forms for Associateship Rank. 1931-1941
p. 66