Sabine Lepsius

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Sabine Graef: Self-Portrait , 1885

Sabine Lepsius (born Graef; born January 15, 1864 in Berlin ; † November 22, 1942 in Bayreuth ) was a German portrait painter and salonnière influenced by Impressionism .

Life

Sabine Graef was the daughter of the history and portrait painter Gustav Graef and his wife, the painter and lithographer Franziska Graef, b. Liebreich (1824-1893), who came from a respected assimilated Jewish family. Her career was determined by the bourgeois artistic milieu in which she grew up. Trained by her father, she showed her creative power at the age of 21 in a confidently painted self-portrait. In 1892 she married the painter Reinhold Lepsius . At the turn of the century, both artists with their Impressionist portraits in the style of Liebermann and Slevogt were popular in financial and industrial circles. Her brother was the art historian and archaeologist Botho Graef .

Letter from Stefan Georges to Sabine Lepsius, around 1900

Their son Stefan was born in 1897, named after the poet Stefan George . Stefan Lepsius fell in the First World War in early April 1917 . According to the mother, this led to her brother Botho Graef's heart attack eight days later. The painter was an avid supporter of George, with whom she was friendly. In 1898 she painted his portrait, which later became part of the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt . For several years the poet held ceremonial readings with the artist couple during his stays in Berlin. Sabine Lepsius published her correspondence and the story of her friendship in 1935.

The Salon of Sabine Lepsius in Berlin-Westend 1900 was a social fixture. Great minds such as the sociologist Georg Simmel , the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey , the Art Nouveau architect August Endell and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke met here . The artist had been friends with Lili du Bois-Reymond , Sebastian Hensel's youngest daughter, since she was a teenager . In 1902 the Lepsius family moved to Westend, in a semi-detached house that belonged to Lili's parents - Julie Hensel, b. by Adelson and Sebastian Hensel, a Mendelssohn descendant.

Sabine Lepsius was one of the 65 founding members of the Berlin Secession in 1898 , and she regularly participated in their exhibitions until 1913.

Only small parts of the work have survived, as the commissioners for the 130 portraits of women and 60 men and of the 90 pictures of children and young people were mostly Jewish families who had to emigrate and dissolve their households during the National Socialist era .

Fonts

  • From the German lifestyle . Leipzig: Seemann & Co., 1916
  • Stefan George: story of a friendship . Berlin: Verlag Die Runde, 1935
  • An artist's life in Berlin at the turn of the century: memories. Munich: Georg Müller Verlag, 1972

gallery

  • Sabine Lepsius: Portrait of Stefan Georges , 1898

  • Sabine Lepsius: Portrait of Mathilde Vollmoeller , around 1900

  • Sabine Lepsius: Portrait of her son Stefan (1897–1917)

literature

  • Lepsius, Sabine . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 214 .
  • A. Rittmann: Lepsius, Sabine . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 84, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023189-2 , p. 175 f.
  • Irmgard Wirth: Berlin painting in the 19th century ; Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-572-10011-9 , p. 349.
  • Ruth Glatzer (Ed.): The Wilhelminian Berlin ; Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88680-561-1 , p. 192.
  • Annette Dorgerloh : The artist couple Lepsius. On Berlin portrait painting around 1900. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003722-9 ( digitized from Google books )
  • Annette Dogerloh: Sabine Lepsius. In: Britta Jürgs (Ed.): Because there is nothing left as nature intended. Portraits of women artists and writers around 1900. AvivA Verlag, Berlin, 2001, ISBN 3-932338-13-8 ; Pp. 216-232
  • Sabine Lepsius: An artist's life in Berlin at the turn of the century. Memories from Sabine Lepsius. Gotthold Müller Verlag, Munich 1972.

Web links

Commons : Sabine Lepsius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger: The Berlin salons: With historical-literary walks, Berlin 2000, p. 356 online
  2. ↑ See picture index of art and architecture.
  3. ↑ Stefan George: History of a Friendship. Berlin: Verl. Die Runde 1935
  4. ↑ See Annette Dorgerloh : "At least it was amusing". Sabine Lepsius and Stefan George - a friendship without a phrase ? , in: Ute Oelmann, Ulrich Raulff (eds.): Women around Stefan George , Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, pp. 104–116.
  5. ↑ s. Lepsius, Sabine . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 214 .
  6. ↑ kultur-port.de: Only the talent ... Käthe Kollwitz and the women of the Berlin Secession (accessed on May 15, 2016)
  7. ^ A. Rittmann: Sabine Lepsius , in: AKL, 2014, p. 175
personal data
SURNAME Lepsius, Sabine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graef, Sabine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1942
Place of death Bayreuth