 The painter Louis-Frédéric Schützenberger (1825–1903) was his cousin.René Schützenberger studied at the Académie Julian, a private art school founded by Rodolphe Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens.In 1891, he married Andrée-Marie Bouland in the town hall of the 6th arrondissement of Paris.. She was a writer and an art critique known as Andrée Myra.