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    Artist

  • Schneider-Kainer, Lene

    • Title

  • [Indian woman in a sari]

  • Physical Description

    Watercolor : watercolor and pencil on paper ; 11.1" x 10" (28.2 cm x 25.3 cm.)

  • Date

    ca. 1927 ?

  • Summary

    Indian woman wearing a burgundy scarf, a red top with yellow decoration, and a blue skirt with red dots.

  • Subject

    Twentieth century

  • Place

    India, Description and travel

  • Medium

    Watercolors; Paintings

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Biographical/Historical Information

Lene Schneider-Kainer, (16 May, 1885, Vienna, Austria - 15 June, 1971, Cochabamba, Bolivia), was a Jewish-Austrian artist, daughter of the painter Sigmund Schneider. She studied art throughout Europe, and married Ludwig Kainer in 1910. Schneider-Kainer made her debut as an artist in 1917 with an exhibition at the Galerie Gurlitt, and through the 1920s Lene Schneider-Kainer became renowned as painter and illustrator. In 1926 Lene left Berlin after her divorce and for two years accompanied the poet Bernhard Kellermann on an extended odyssey retracing the steps of Marco Polo. She painted, photographed and sketched her impressions, and these contributions appeared regularly in the Berliner Tageblatt. Due to the rise of the Nazis she settled in Mallorca in 1932, and later Ibiza. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she left for New York. She continued to exhibit successfully around the world, and in 1954 she settled in Bolivia, where she assisted her son in establishing a textile factory.

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Schneider-Kainer, Lene: [Indian woman in a sari], Leo Baeck Institute, 79.364.