Sabine Lepsius (1864 - 1942)

Sabine Lepsius

Sabine Lepsius was a German painter of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. She is known as a painter, portraitist, representative of realism.

Sabine Lepsius was the wife of portrait painter Reingold Lepsius and together with him was a popular artist of his time. Her salon in Berlin was a famous meeting place for many artists and writers. She was also one of the founders of the Berlin Secession and exhibited with it until 1913.

Only a small part of Lepsius' oeuvre has survived: most of the 280 portraits she created depicting members of the Jewish community were lost or destroyed during World War II.