Mathias Schmid was an Austrian painter.
At first he devoted himself to religious painting, but only found the right ground for his talent after he entered the School of Piloty in 1869. Following the example of Franz Defregger, he first chose the materials for his pictures from Tyrolean folk life. Mathias Schmid also created numerous socially and church-critical images. Schmid later became a founding member of the Old Catholic Church in Munich. The painting The expulsion of the Zillertal Protestants(1837) shows without pathos the fate of these people and one last glimpse of the displaced people at home.
