Leo Schobinger

Leo Schobinger (born July 22, 1897, in Kressbronn; died May 25, 1985, in Maichingen) was a German painter, graphic artist, and art educator. Drawing from Impressionism and Expressionism, Schobinger developed his own distinctive style, in which he expressed “the beauty and dignity of the visible world in the appearance of color, its rhythm, and its structures in graphic art.”

Schobinger trained as a teacher in Saulgau from 1911 to 1917, serving in Flanders in 1917/1918 during WWI. From 1919 to 1923, he taught in Waldburg, where he met Munich painter Paul Hey. He later taught in Kornwestheim and at the Saulgau Teachers’ Seminary before studying from 1925 to 1930 under Christian Landenberger, Arnold Waldschmidt, and Heinrich Altherr at the Stuttgart Academy of Art and the Technical University.

From 1930 to 1962, he taught graphic arts at the Stuttgart School of Graphics (now the School of Printing). Upon returning from war captivity, he explored themes of loss, suffering, death, and solace in a powerful, timeless style.

Notable Exhibitions:

1928-1931: Stuttgart Secession.
1930: Berlin Independent Artists Association; German Artists’ Federation in Stuttgart and Paris.
1931: Berlin Secession, Munich Glaspalast; Ulm Art Association.
1935: Heilbronn Art Association.
1943: Young Art in the German Reich, Vienna Künstlerhaus.
1952: Schaller Art House, Stuttgart.
1955: Württemberg Art Association, Stuttgart; Museum of Decorative Arts, Schwäbisch Gmünd.
1961, 1966: Böblingen Art Association.
1963: Wessenberg House, Constance.
1966, 1977, 1982: Exhibitions in Sindelfingen.