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

Lot 2008 limit € 50

Charcoal drawing on light cardboard, portrait sketch, young man with head propped up and a thoughtful look, signed and dated (19)53 lower right, slightly stained, sheet approx. 40 x 29 cm, 1898-1904 studied at the painting school for women in Dresden, among others Robert Sterl, Wilhelm Georg 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 artist group, 1908 student at the painting school in Munich with Albert Weisgerber, in the In the following years he ran his own painting school, after 1933 his works were classified as degenerate art, despite almost being completely blind he was artistically active until the end of his life // Saxon artists