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

Lot 2225 limit € 240

Oil/cardboard, still life with blooming garden flowers, signed top left, framed, approx. 66 x 51 cm, with frame approx. 72 x 57 cm, 1898-1904 studied at the painting school for women in Dresden, among others with Robert Sterl, Wilhelm Georg Ritter , Anton Pepino and Wilhelm Claudius, first exhibitions in Chemnitz since 1884, sponsored by the doctor and collector A. Thiele, from 1907 member of the Chemnitz artists' group, 1908 student at the painting school in Munich with Albert Weisgerber, in the following years head of his own painting school, after 1933 her works were classified as degenerate art, active as an artist until the end of her life despite being almost completely blind