Thea Schleusner (1879-1964) was a German painter.[1]

Thea Schleusner
Photograph by Rudolf Dührkoop (c.1905)
Born	(1879-04-30)30 April 1879 30 April 1879 Wittenberg, Germany
Died	1964 (aged 84–85) Berlin, Germany
Nationality	German
Education	Académie Colarossi, Académie Moderne
Known for	Painting

Biography

Schleusner was born on 30 April 1879 in Wittenberg, Germany. She studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Moderne. In Germany she studied with Franz Skarbina and Reinhold Lepsius.[2] She settled in Berlin where she painted portraits of Emil Nolde, Albert Einstein, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Much of her work was destroyed in a bombing during World War II.She was a member of the Verein Berliner Künstler [de].[3]

Schleusner died in 1964 in Berlin.[4][5] Her work is in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay.[6]

References

External links

• Media related to Thea Schleusner at Wikimedia Commons
• images of Schleusner's work on Artnet

На других языках

[de] Thea Schleusner