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

Schrag, Martha (1870 Borna - 1957 Karl-Marx-Stadt)
Graphite drawing on gray paper, mother with two children, signed and dated 1945 lower left, placed in a simple passe-partout, signs of age (among other things soiled, traces of mounting), sheet approx. 32 x 23 cm, with passe-partout approx. 40 x 30 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 the painting school in Munich with Albert Weisgerber, in the following years head of his own painting school, after 1933 classification of her works as degenerate art, despite almost complete blindness active as an artist until the end of her life // Saxon artists