Lene Schneider-Kainer

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Lene Schneider-Kainer
Born
Lene Schneider

May 16, 1885
Vienna, Austria
DiedJune 15, 1971(1971-06-15) (aged 86)
Cochabamba, Bolivia
NationalityAustrian
Known forPainting
StyleErotic art
SpouseLudwig Kainer (1910-1926)

Lene Schneider-Kainer, born Lene Schneider (1885 – 1971), was a Jewish-Austrian painter, daughter of the painter Sigmund Schneider,[1] noted for her illustration of "Lukian:Hetärengespräche. Mit Illustrationen von Lene Schneider-Kainer und einem Nachwort von Sabine Dahmen".

Life and art

She started her art studies in Vienna, and continued in Munich, Paris and Amsterdam. During a stay in

Arnold Schönberg, Franz Werfel, Herwarth Walden and his wife, Else Lasker-Schüler. Between 1912 and 1926 she lived in Berlin at 78 Niebuhrstraße in Charlottenburg
. In 1914/15 Schneider-Kainer produced a strong and expressive oil painting of the poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schüler.

Schneider-Kainer made her debut as an artist in 1917 with an exhibition of some 50 oil paintings and drawings at the Galerie Gurlitt, shocking the art world of Berlin. There was an uproar over 30 erotic images, illustrating

Hetaerae)" by Lucian
.

The artistic highpoint of Schneider-Kainer's career was in the years from 1919 to 1922 with the production of lithographic erotic portfolios with titles such as "Ten female acts" and "Before the Mirror." In the 1920s Schneider-Kainer became renowned as painter and illustrator, enjoying great acclaim in Berlin and selling her works abroad.

In 1926, Schneider-Kainer left Berlin after her divorce and for two years accompanied the poet

Hongkong and China
. In her memoirs, she wrote:

We travelled through many countries and regions, which had never seen a camera, where the inhabitants either fled from the camera or became nuisances through their insatiable curiosity.... they found it astounding that a woman could draw and write.

She painted, photographed and sketched her impressions, and these contributions appeared regularly in the

National Socialists. After this she settled on Mallorca, and later on Ibiza, where she started an artists' colony. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she left for New York. Under a pseudonym she published washable fabric children's books.[2]

She had successful exhibitions in Mallorca, Barcelona, Copenhagen, New York City and Philadelphia. In 1954 she settled in Bolivia, where she assisted her son in establishing a textile factory producing Native American designs for export to the United States.[3]

Bibliography

  • Dahmen, Sabine: Leben und Werk der jüdischen Künstlerin Lene Schneider-Kainer im Berlin der 20er Jahre. Dortmund: Ed. Ebersbach, 1999

References

  1. ^ "Kiezspaziergang am 12.3.2005". berlin.de. 17 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Schneider-Kainer Leine". art-port.cc.
  3. ^ Women who moved Berlin Archived 2012-04-08 at the Wayback Machine

External links

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