Sabine Lepsius

Sabine Lepsius ( born January 15, 1864 in Berlin, † November 22, 1942 in Bayreuth, Germany) was a German portrait painter.

Life

Sabine Lepsius was the daughter of the portrait painter Gustav Graef. Her career was determined by the bourgeois artistic milieu in which she grew up. Trained by her father, she was already at the age of 21 years, their power of creation in a sovereign painted self-portrait. In 1902, she married the well-known painter Reinhold Lepsius. She was considered similar talented as her husband, and about the turn of the century were both artists with their impressionistic portraits in the style of Liebermann and Slevogt extremely popular in financial and industrial circles. Her brother was the art historian and archaeologist Botho Graef.

Her salon in Berlin- Westend was a social fixture in that time. Here, thinkers such as Georg Simmel and Wilhelm Dilthey, August Endell, and Rainer Maria Rilke met. In addition, the painter was an enthusiastic follower of Stefan George, with whom she was acquainted, and whom she portrayed in 1898. For some years, kept the poet and lyricist during his stays in Berlin ceremonial readings at the artist couple from. Your correspondence and the story of their friendship Sabine Lepsius published in 1935.

Publications

  • From the German way of life; Leipzig: Seemann & Co. 1916
  • Stefan George: Story of a Friendship. Berlin: ET The Round 1935
  • A Berlin artist's life around the turn of the century: Memories; München: G. Müller 1972
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