Maria Langer-Schöller (1878 - 1969)

Maria Langer-Schöller

Maria Langer-Scheller is a German artist who started her artistic career with oil paintings, but later devoted herself to watercolors. She has worked as a graphic designer for Ffluge Blatter and the Merkur newspaper in Dachau, among other publications. In 1914, in Leipzig, she was exhibited at an exhibition of book graphics. She illustrated children's books for the Cassirer publishing house in Berlin. In addition, she created works as an independent artist. Her favorite technique was watercolor. Maria Langer-Scheller has been a member of various artists' associations, including the German Artists' Association, the Munich Artists' Association, the GEDOK and the Dachau Artists' Association. In 1919, she became one of the co-founders of the Dachau Artists' Group, which organized the first exhibition of artists in that city. In addition to her work as an artist, she wrote poems and stories, which she published in daily newspapers, often supplementing them with paper clippings and drawings.