Paula Sedana Schiff-Magnussen
Paula Sedana Schiff-Magnussen , also Paula Schiff-Elsfleth (born September 2, 1871 in Elsfleth , † April 1962 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German expressionist painter.
Life
The Jewish shipowner's daughter spent her childhood in Elsfleth. For her artistic training she first went to Worpswede , then to Düsseldorf . Here she took painting lessons from Willy Spatz . Then she moved to Berlin and later to Paris . In Worpswede she painted landscapes and farmhouse parlors, where she met Paula Modersohn-Becker . Her work includes several hundred oil paintings and watercolors with motifs of peasant portraits, peasant parlors, tinkerers, but also brick churches and mountain landscapes. In 1962 the artist died in Mülheim an der Ruhr.
She signed her work with Paula Schiff Elsfleth .
Works in museums
- Mülheim City Museum
- Art collection in Obervorschütz
literature
- Heike Carstensen: Painting by Paula Sedana Schiff-Magnussen in the Palais Rastede . In: Kulturland Oldenburg - Journal of the Oldenburg Landscape , No. 145, Issue 3/2010, pp. 30–33, oldenburgische-landschaft.de (PDF; 1.8 MB), ISSN 1862-9652
- Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 .
- 1905 - 100 years of the “Northwest German Art Exhibition”. Catalog, Oldenburg 2005
Web links
- Paula Sedana Elsfleth . General Artist Lexicon - International Artist Database, de Gruyter Saur
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friederike Kloth: Pictures back home . In: Nordwest-Zeitung , September 29, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schiff-Magnussen, Paula Sedana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ship Elsfleth, Paula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German expressionist painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elsfleth |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1962 |
| Place of death | Mülheim an der Ruhr |