Schrag, Martha (1870 Borna near Leipzig - 1957 Chemnitz)

Lot 2081 limit € 850

Watercolor, "Donaustädtchen Obernzell near Passau", view over the Danube to the market church and surrounding houses, in the foreground people on a boat crossing, signed and dated (19)38 by hand lower right, behind glass in the frame, on the back of which a label with the Note "Artworks in Chemnitz. Winning the lottery in 1939." as well as information on the picture, signs of age (min. browned), sheet section approx. 32 x 45 cm, with frame approx. 48.5 x 61.5 cm, 1898 training at the Dresden painting school for women with professors Claudius, Sterl, Pepino and Ritter, 1905 a first exhibition of oil paintings in the Kunstsalon Gerstenberger / Chemnitz, 1907 founding member of the Chemnitz artists' group together with Alfred Kunze, Gustav Schaffer, Georg Gelbke, Rose Friedrich, after the Second World War she initially devoted herself to expressive drawings of the processing of the war, to whom a significant part of her artistic work fell victim in 1945, 1950 honorary citizenship of the city of Chemnitz