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Chinese Girl (Shanghai)
Lene Schneider-Kainer1885/1971
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History
New York, United States
Girl with pigtails sitting on a chair. Signed and titled in lower right corner.
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- Title: Chinese Girl (Shanghai)
- Creator: Schneider-Kainer, Lene
- Creator Lifespan: 1885/1971
- Date Created: 1885/1971
- Subject: Children in art
- Repository: Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History
- Physical Dimensions: w35.2 x h45.2 cm
- Artist Biography: Lene Schneider-Kainer, (16 May, 1885, Vienna, Austria - 15 June, 1971, Cochabamba, Bolivia), was a Jewish-Austrian artist, daughter of the painter Sigmund Schneider. She studied art throughout Europe, and married Ludwig Kainer in 1910. Schneider-Kainer made her debut as an artist in 1917 with an exhibition at the Galerie Gurlitt, and through the 1920s she became renowned as painter and illustrator. In 1926 Lene left Berlin after her divorce and for two years accompanied the poet Bernhard Kellermann on an extended odyssey retracing the steps of Marco Polo. She painted, photographed and sketched her impressions, and these contributions appeared regularly in the Berliner Tageblatt. Due to the rise of the Nazis she settled in Mallorca in 1932, and later Ibiza. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she left for New York. She continued to exhibit successfully around the world, and in 1954 she settled in Bolivia, where she assisted her son in establishing a textile factory.
- Type: Watercolor
- Rights: This material may be used for personal, research, and educational purposes only. Any other use without prior authorization is prohibited. Please contact LBI librarians at lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org for further information.
- External Link: LBI Art Collection, Center for Jewish History
- Medium: Charcoal and watercolor on paper
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