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Renée Sintenis
(March 20, 1888 - April 22, 1965) Germany

Renée Sintenis

Sculptor and engraver

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Born in Glatz, Silesia, she began to study drawing in Stuttgart, then moved to Berlin and studied 1908-11 at the School of Arts and Crafts under the painter L. von Koenig and the sculptor Haverkamp.

Renée made small sculptures of female nudes and especially animals. Encouraged by Rilke and by the painter and engraver E.R. Weiss, whom she married, she worked much from the animals in the Berlin Zoo.

She illustrated various books including Sappho 1921 (etchings) and Daphnis und Chloé 1935 (woodcuts). From 1930 occasionally worked on a larger scale. She ws a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts from 1929 until she was expelled by the Nazis.

Her house and studio were destroyed in an air raid in 1944. Renée was appointed professor at the School of Fine Arts in Berlin in 1947. She died in Berlin.

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