Schrag, Martha (1870 Borna - 1957 Karl-Marx-Stadt)

Lot 2071 limit € 100

Pencil and pastel chalk on gray drawing paper, a walker on a tree-lined avenue, signed lower right, design study upper right in the picture, framed behind glass, approx. 26.5 x 34 cm, 1898-1904 studied at the painting school for women in Dresden with R. Sterl, W. Ritter, A. Pepino and W. Claudius, since 1884 first exhibitions in Chemnitz, the doctor and collector A. Thiele promotes them, 1907 member of the Chemnitz artists' group, 1908 student at the painting school in Munich with A. Weisgerber, management of her own Painting school, 1930s Her art is considered "degenerate art", despite her almost complete blindness she was artistically active until the end of her life