LENE SCHNEIDER-KAINER* (Vienna 1885 - 1971 Cochabamba) The writer Kellermann charcoal/paper, 45 x 33,5 cm ...

LENE SCHNEIDER-KAINER* (Vienna 1885 - 1971 Cochabamba)
The writer Kellermann
charcoal/paper, 45 x 33,5 cm
addition: Lene Schneider-Kainer, Portrait Bernhard Kellermann, charcoal/paper, 45,5 x 33,5 cm

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The Austrian painter Lene Schneider-Kainer became known through the illustrations in the book “Lukian: Hetaen Talks. With illustrations by Lene Schneider-Kainer and an afterword by Sabine Dahmen.” Her father was the painter Sigmund Scheider. She studied art in Vienna before continuing her studies in Munich, Paris and Amsterdam. In Paris she met the doctor, painter and graphic artist Ludwig Kainer, whom she married in 1910. She lived with him in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1912 until their divorce in 1924. The couple belonged to a circle of artists and intellectuals that included, among others, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Werfel, Herwarth Walden and Elke Laske-Schueler. Schneider-Kainer achieved her artistic breakthrough in 1917 at the Gurlitt Gallery in Berlin. Among the oil paintings and drawings on display were 30 erotic illustrations for Lucian's conversations with the hetaera, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland. From 1919 to 1922 her artistic focus was on erotic lithograph portfolios. After the divorce from she opened an exclusive lingerie shop with an art salon. She designed the handmade underwear in hers herself. From 1927 she traveled with the writer Bernhard Kellermann through Russia, Persia, India, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Tibet, Hong Kong and China on behalf of the Berliner Tageblatt. From the trip she brought back film material 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 the year 1931 in Rome with the support of a grant from the Deutsche Akademie Roma Villa Massimo. After the seizure of power, the Jewess did not return from a trip to the Balearic Islands; she lived on Mallorca, later Ibiza. There she led an open house and founded an artists' colony. In 1937 she emigrated to New York. There she managed 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.

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