Sophie Schneider
Sophie Schneider (born October 30, 1866 in Brüchlingen ; † May 25, 1942 there ) was a German painter.
Life
Like her sister Betty (1875–1928), who later also became a painter, Sophie Schneider came from a Hohenlohe farm in Brüchlingen, a small hamlet near Langenburg , that had existed for centuries . Her parents were Johann Georg Michael Schneider (1835–1913) and Rosine Magdalene Brenner nee. Mittelbach (1840-1912). Like her seven siblings, she worked on the farm as a child. After finishing school and completing a home economics training , she went to Switzerland in 1890 , where she worked in a guesthouse and gave German lessons. After stays in Paris and London , she came to an estate in Ireland , where the woman of the house encouraged her passion for painting. After returning to Germany, she took her first regular painting lessons in Hanover . In 1891 she stayed in Italy , after which she moved to Berlin , where a sister already lived, and set up a studio . Apparently she attended free drawing classes in Berlin and submitted pictures for an exhibition for the first time. Around 1911 she is back in Italy, including Sicily , and returns to Brüchlingen shortly before the First World War . There she took care of the wounded, sick and dying in the village. Sophie outlived her sister painting Betty by 14 years and died in 1942.
plant
Early nude drawings , scenes from everyday life , portraits and, above all, landscapes and cityscapes , often motifs from Rothenburg ob der Tauber and Hohenlohe castles, have been preserved, as well as copies of famous masters. Paintings are mostly done on cardboard , while large representative pictures are created on canvas . Mixed techniques are often used : Oil paints are combined with charcoal or chalk , mostly in bright colors in an increasingly impasto painting style . In addition to forest , grain fields and orchards , family scenes and the often tough country life are topics . A few religious representations are commissioned works for churches . A particularly appealing painting by Sophie Schneider is the 1905 depiction of a young mother who is watching an older woman breastfeeding her child, a reminder of the depiction of Anna Selbdritt in Christian iconography .
Collections and exhibitions
Among others in the Hällisch-Franconian Museum in Schwäbisch Hall; most of the paintings are in family and private ownership.
- Art exhibition of the Association of Berlin Artists, Berlin 1907 (unsecured)
- Langenburg Hohenloher Kunstverein 1976
- Crailsheim City Museum 2014
literature
- Dieter Narr : Sophie Schneider. In: Württembergisch Franken. Yearbook. Volume 62, 1978, pp. 144ff. (with contribution from Manfred Wankmüller )
- Friederike Lindner : Sophie (1866–1942) and Betty (1875–1928) Schneider. Painters from Hohenlohe. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name in the City Museum in Crailsheim Hospital, May 31 to August 31, 2014. Baier-BPB-Verlag, Crailsheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-942081-35-1
Web links
- Sophie and Betty Schneider - May 2014. crailsheim.de (special exhibition in the Crailsheim City Museum)
- Unusual women. Hohenloher Tagblatt, May 28, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schneider, Sophie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fragments |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1942 |
| Place of death | Fragments |