Sintenis, Renée |
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BORN 20 Mar 1888, Glatz, Silesia (now: Klodzko) - DIED 22 Apr 1965, Berlin BIRTH NAME Sintenis, Renate Alice GRAVE LOCATION Berlin: Waldfriedhof Dahlem, Hüttenweg 47, Steglitz-Zehlendorf (Feld 001-7 (Abt. 24B-12)) |
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Renée Sintenis was the daughter of the lawyer Franz Bernard Sintenis (1858-1916) and his wife Margarethe, born Friedländer (1860-1927). She studied drawing in Stuttgart. In 1905 the family moved to Berlin. The she studied at the School of the Kunstgewerbemuseum under the painter Leo von Koenig and under the sculptor Haverkamp from 1908 to 1911. She created small sculptures of animals and female nudes. She was encouraged by Rainer Maria Rilke and by the painter Emil Rudolf Weiss. Weiss was ten years her senior, her teacher and at first a fatherly friend. They married in December 1917. She used animals from the Berlin zoo as models and she illustrated various books. In 1931 she became the first female member of the Prussian Academy of Arts, but in 1934 she was removed from the Academy by the nazis. In 1933 they had forbidden het to exhibit. In 1944 her house and studio were destroyed by a bombardment. After the war she became a professor at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. In 1955 she was once more admitted into the Prussian Academy of Arts. She lived until her death at the Inssbrucker Strasse with Magdalena Goldmann, who was officially her house keeper but probably more than that. After her death in 1965 Goldmann administered her inheritance and in 1989 she was buried into the same grave. |
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 The grave of Renée Sintenis at the Waldfriedhof Dahlem, Berlin. Picture by Androom (17 Jul 2005) |
