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The Carl Schmitt Foundation, a
not-for-profit corporation, was started in 1996 for the purpose of
preserving and perpetuating the paintings, drawings and writings of
Carl Schmitt, a unique American Artist.
In keeping with Schmitt’s aesthetic vision, the Carl Schmitt Foundation, while esteeming the traditions and values of the past, looks toward the future through a lively and enriching dialogue with modernity. The core of this dialogue is the relevance of truth, goodness and beauty in the twenty-first century and beyond, as necessitated by the human spirit and manifested in the arts.
Headquartered at Schmitt’s last studio in Wilton, Connecticut, which has been renovated to serve as a research center and gallery, the Carl Schmitt Foundation encourages this dynamic interplay of creativity and scholarly research into what Schmitt called the “energy that is behind the arts” through lectures, symposia, papers, and this website.
A library of some two thousand volumes focusing on American art and a core collection of Schmitt’s paintings, pastels, drawings and manuscripts serve to maintain and direct this study. These manuscripts include Schmitt’s book entitled Europe and the Arts, several essays, and his Studio Notes, covering fifty years of his life and thought. Anyone interested in Schmitt, especially students, artists, and scholars as well as art-lovers in general may visit these facilities by appointment.