Fanny Remak

Fanny Remak (born July 9, 1883 in Berlin ; died 1970 in London ) was a German painter .

Life

Fanny Remak was the daughter of the neurologist and professor Ernst Julius Remak and his wife Martha Hahn. Her grandfather was the embryologist Robert Remak ; Her brothers included the mathematician Robert Remak and the lawyer Georg Remak .

Remak initially received her artistic training in the Association of Berlin Women Artists. In 1912 she moved to Paris with her Berlin friends Helen Grund and Augusta von Zitzewitz to study, after which she completed her training at the arts and crafts school in Munich .

In 1921 she became a member of the Free Secession in Berlin, where she served on the board from 1928. From 1931 she gave painting and drawing lessons, but was banned from working by the National Socialists in 1933 due to her Jewish descent and was again excluded from the board of directors of the Secession together with other artists. Colleagues who shared this fate were Harriet von Rathlef-Keilmann , Lotte Laserstein and Julie Wolfthorn . In 1939 she emigrated to England and taught painting in Cambridge from 1944 to 1950 .

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She mainly painted portraits, landscapes and cityscapes.

literature

• Remak, Fanny . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 8 : Poethen – Schlueter . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094025-1 , p. 316 .