Loewenstein, Maria (Marie Lilli Margarete), 1894-1982

Person

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Biography

Marie [Maria] Lilli Margarete Bätge, b. Tallinn, m. Herr Steinberg, had one daughter, Karin M. Steinberg; then m. Dr. Max Israel Löwenstein (later Max Israel Loewenstein) in 1925; their son Ernst Heinrich Löwenstein (later Henry Lowenstein) b. July 4, 1925 was sent from Berlin to to England on the Kindertransport in 1939; the rest of the family emigrated to the United States in 1946, where they were joined by their son in 1947. __ __ __Her birth and baptismal certificate : B333.02.0001.0002.00007 (Marie Lilli Margarete Bätge, b. Reval, 1894 am 27 Marz am 1o Uhr morgens) Her certificate of marriage to Max Israel Loewenstein : B333.02.0001.0002.00009 (Marie Lilli Margarete Steinberg, m. 1925) Certificate of Identity : B333.06.0001.0006.00001.00001 (maiden name Marie Betge, b. Reval, Estonia, April 9, 1894) Her International Rescue and Relief Committee ID card, 1946 : B333.06.0001.0006.00008 (Maria Loewenstein) Lowenstein Family Holocaust Exhibit Booklet, 2009 : B333/07-0001.0007.00001 (Maria Loewenstein )

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Study for Prisoners, 1963

Item

Identifier: B333.08.0003.00006

Abstract Watercolor portrait of an inmate behind black prison bars; just the face, neck and tops of shoulders are visible. Face is very angular and done in an expressionist style. Inmate has blue field across forhead and down the subject's right side of face, red field behind figure and light tan color above forehead and along shoulders.Label affixed to back of frame from a 2013/2014 a Maria Lowenstein Restrospective at Niza Knoll Gallery states that this is an acrylic painting but it is...

Dates: 1963

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B333, Lowenstein Family Papers and Art / Maria Lowenstein Papers and Art / Box 3

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