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

Schrag, Martha (1870 Borna - 1957 Karl-Marx-Stadt)
Graphite drawing, tree-lined garden with two girls, in the background view of a house, drawing probably taken from a sketchbook, signed and dated (19)45 lower left, signs of age (including slightly soiled, traces of mounting), sheet approx. 21 x 27.5 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, since 1884 first exhibitions in Chemnitz, 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 her own painting school, after 1933 classification of her works as degenerate art, despite being almost completely blind until the end of her life artistically active // Saxon artists