The Architect of Disillusionment: The Life and Vision of Christian Schad In the fractured landscape of post-World War I Europe, few artists captured the shimmering decadence and underlying psychological tension of the era as piercingly as Christian Schad. Born in 1894 in Miesbach, Bavaria, to a prosperous lawyer, Schad possessed a unique vantage point that allowed him to navigate the turbulent currents of the early twentieth century w…