Clara Sachs

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Portrait of Clara Immerwahr , 1900

Clara Sachs (born February 6, 1862 in Breslau ; † January 1, 1921 there ) was a German painter and lithographer .

life and work

Clara Sachs was born as the daughter of the wealthy Breslau merchant Leopold Moritz Sachs (1832-1897) and his wife Sophie Sachs (1838-1905) in 1862 in Breslau. The Silesian painter frequented artistic circles in Paris and Wroclaw. Her studio at Fürstenstrasse 110a was in a house that, like Villa Neisser, was in Schneitniger Park and, since 1902, had also belonged to the Neissers, who were close friends with the painter. The site itself was a piece of Oderauwald, which was originally owned by Princely Hohenlohe, acquired by the city of Breslau in 1854 and converted into an English garden by Peter Joseph Lenné in 1965 .

Clara Sachs was a member of the German Association of Artists . Some of her pictures hung in the National Museum in Wroclaw in the collection of Silesian art since the 16th century.

plant

Her preferred subjects were landscapes and flower still lifes. Her artistic teachers include Carl Coven Schirm , Hermann Bayer , Julius Jacob and Carl von Marr . It is attributed to the Impressionists.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Clara Sachs in: Julius Sachs in letters and documents: 1832-1868 , from Julius von Sachs, Hartmut Gimmler, 2003, page 30
  2. ↑ Dreßler's Art Handbook, 1921 II, p. 498
  3. ^ Piotr Łukaszewicz: Dom Alberta i Toni Neisserów. Zapomniany rozdział z dziejów wrocławskich muzeów. German summary, p. 57. In: Roczniki sztuki ślaskiej 15, 1991, p. 39–57 Digitalisat , p. 56.
  4. ^ Ernst Scheyer: Eugen Spiro, Clara Sachs. Contributions to the more recent Silesian art history. Delp, Munich 1977; quoted in: Petra Hoelscher: The Academy for Arts and Crafts in Breslau. Paths of an art school 1791-1932 . Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2003, p. 166 note 847.
  5. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Sachs, Clara ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 31, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  6. ^ Klaus Klöppel: Breslau: Lower Silesia and its thousand-year-old capital. 3. Edition. Treschner, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-89794-158-8 , p. 137.
  7. ^ Klaus Klöppel: Breslau: Lower Silesia and its thousand-year-old capital. 3. Edition. Treschner, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-89794-158-8 , p. 118.
personal data
SURNAME Sachs, Clara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1921
Place of death Wroclaw