Lene Schneider-Kainer
Lene Schneider-Kainer (born Lene Schneider , May 16, 1885 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died June 15, 1971 in Cochabamba , Bolivia ), was an Austrian painter . She became known through the illustrations in the book Lukian : Hetärenverbindungen. With illustrations by Lene Schneider-Kainer and an afterword by Sabine Dahmen .
Life
Lene Schneider was born in Vienna as the daughter of the painter Sigmund Schneider . There she studied art before continuing her studies in Munich , Paris and Amsterdam .
In Paris in 1909 she met the doctor, painter and graphic artist Ludwig Kainer , whom she married in 1910. She lived with him from 1912 until her divorce in 1924 in Berlin Charlottenburg . The couple belonged to a group of artists and intellectuals, which also included Arnold Schönberg , Franz Werfel , Herwarth Walden and Else Lasker-Schüler .
She achieved her artistic breakthrough in 1917 at the Gurlitt Gallery in Berlin. Her 50 oil paintings and drawings on display caused a sensation in the Berlin art world. The drawings included 30 erotic illustrations for Lukian's talks with the hetaerae, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland . Between 1919 and 1922 her artistic focus was the creation of lithographic, erotic portfolios. After the divorce from Ludwig Kainer, she opened an exclusive lingerie business with an art salon. She designed the handmade linen in her shop herself.
On behalf of the Berliner Tageblatt , she traveled from 1927 with the writer Bernhard Kellermann through Russia , Persia , India , Burma , Thailand , Vietnam , Tibet , Hong Kong and China . She noted about these trips:
“We traveled through many countries and regions where photographic equipment had never been seen before, where the natives either fled in front of the camera or created almost insurmountable obstacles with their limitless curiosity. It was ... unbelievable for her that a woman would write faces and shapes on paper like letters. "
The trip lasted two years. She brought back film material from the trip for a documentary as well as photographs and drawings. Her work has been exhibited in various Berlin museums as well as in Magdeburg, Stuttgart, Kiel, London and Rome.
Schneider-Kainer also illustrated for other magazines, such as Die Dame . She spent 1931 in Rome with a grant from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo . After the seizure of power , she did not return to Berlin as a Jew from a trip to the Balearic Islands and lived on Mallorca , later on Ibiza . There she ran an open house and founded an artists' colony. She emigrated to New York in 1937 when the Spanish Civil War broke out. There she ran the children's book publisher Elena Aleska from 1938 to 1954 , published her own children's books under the pseudonym Eleska and showed her pictures in exhibitions in New York and Philadelphia .
In 1954 she moved to Bolivia, where she helped her son Peter set up a fabric factory. The textiles were printed with Native American patterns and were intended to promote local carpet and fabric production. The textiles were exported to the United States.
Lene Schneider-Kainer died in Cochabamba on June 15, 1971.
literature
- Sabine Dahmen: The life and work of the Jewish artist Lene Schneider-Kainer in Berlin in the 1920s. Ed. Ebersbach, Dortmund 1999.
- Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 157f.
- Oliver Bentz: Vienna, Berlin, Bolivia. The Jewish painter Lene Schneider-Kainer, born in Vienna in 1885, was once a highly regarded artist whose multifaceted work is now almost forgotten. Memory of a world citizen. Wiener Zeitung, weekend column EXTRA, v. February 11, 2017.
Web links
- Travel Diary 1926-1928 (Travel Diary of Mrs. Lene Schneider-Kainer), ME 1035 Memoir at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York
- Guide to the Lene Schneider-Kainer Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute , New York.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e neighborhood walk on March 12, 2005. In: berlin.de. September 8, 2014, accessed November 24, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d poster campaign "Women move Berlin" - Berlin.de. In: archive.org. April 8, 2012, archived from the original on April 8, 2012 ; accessed on November 24, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schneider-Kainer, Lene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schneider, Lene (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th June 1971 |
| Place of death | Cochabamba |