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

Lot 2004 limit € 80

Charcoal drawing, mother bending over a small child, figure scene set in a landscape with symbolism of Mary, signed lower left, dated (19)48 and inscribed Sketch f. Aquarelle in the sunshine, sheet detached from a sketchbook, signs of age (among other things, slightly stained, traces of mounting), Sheet approx. 21 x 28 cm, Martha Schrag has repeatedly devoted herself to the subject of Mary with child or mother and child, also detached from the Christian topic, 1898-1904 studied at the painting school for women in Dresden with Robert Sterl, Wilhelm Georg, among others Ritter, Anton Pepino and Wilhelm Claudius, first exhibitions in Chemnitz from 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 classification of their works as degenerate art, despite almost complete blindness active as an artist until the end of their lives // Saxon artists