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

 Person

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 43 Collections and/or Records:

Exhibits, 1981-1984

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Identifier: B333.08.0013.0003
Abstract

Folder contains lists of painting titles for two separate exhibits featuring Maria Lowenstein and a photocopy of an exhibit publicity card for the April 1981 Retrospective exhibit. Also included are insurance values for Maria Lowenstein's art displayed at the Governors Reception, Denver Art Museum April 30, 1984.

Dates: 1981-1984

"Hiob" or Job, 1944

 Item
Identifier: B333.08.0007.00001
Scope and Contents

Ink wash painting titled "Hiob" by the artist; "Hiob" is Job in German. The painting is of an old man on his knees in the desert.

Dates: 1944

"Hiob" or Job, 1944

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Identifier: B333.08.0008.00001
Scope and Contents

Printed copy of an ink wash painting titled "Hiob" by the artist; "Hiob" is Job in German. The painting is of an old man on his knees in the desert.

Dates: 1944

Hunger, 1945

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Identifier: B333.08.0003.00005
Abstract

Charcoal drawing on paper of young woman sitting on single bed (Maria Loewenstein's daughter Karin Steinberg. Her shoulders are hunched and her lower arms rest on the top her thighs. She looks off behind the artist’s right side with a vacant stare. The bed has a pillow and blanket but the rest of the area is bare. The drawing was done on wall paper with charcoal from bombed buildings in Berlin.

Dates: 1945

"If shirts are 7 coupons each...", circa 1960

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Identifier: B333.08.0002.0001.00003
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Pencil sketch on tracing paper of a female teacher sitting at a desk at the front of a classroom with a board to her left with equations on it. Across from her a girl stands in front of a desk. Quotation at the bottom says "If shirts are 7 coupons each how many could you buy with 14?" "That all depends if you know the right people!"

Dates: circa 1960

"It was (?) wizard over Cologne!", circa 1960

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Identifier: B333.08.0002.0001.00002
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Pencil sketch on tracing paper of man and woman in a 1930s-1940s era convertible automobile with the man driving. He is looking toward his female passenger as he drives through a barricade on a curved road by a sign that says "CAREFUL BEND."

Dates: circa 1960

Lowenstein Art Showing, 1971 May 3

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Identifier: B333.08.0008.0001.00004
Abstract

Two newspaper articles about Maria Lowenstein's one woman show in 1971 at the Gallery of the United Bank of Denver Lobby. The Rocky Mountain News article features a picture of Maria standing with one of her paintings and another image of a painting below. Articles both give very brief biographical infomation and mention her cureent work is all done in acrylic and focues on her recent travels. the articles are mounted on a piece of cardboard.

Dates: 1971 May 3

Mother and Child, circa 1960

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Identifier: B333.08.0003.00007
Abstract

Oil painting on masonite board of a woman and child, possibly Madonna and Child. Woman with head scarf and long full robes sits on a wooden bench by an window holding a wrapped child in her arms. She looks down at the child's face with rays of light shinging through the window on the two; an indication it may be the Madonna and Child. Painting is done is an expressionist style using brown, blue, green and yellow tones.

Dates: circa 1960

National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1987-1988

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Identifier: B333.08.0013.0012
Scope and Contents

Folder contains correspondence between Henry Lowenstein and the museum, notes, copies of clippings, Maria's resume, and 15 identified slides of Maria Lowenstein's paintings in the National Museum of Women in the Arts research center.

Dates: 1987-1988

Newspaper Articles, 1959-2013

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Identifier: B333.08.0013.0005
Abstract

Folder full of newspapper clippings and photocopies of articles of articles about Maria Lowenstein, her life and her art. Artcles range from 1959-2013 with the bulk of the articles from the 1960s.

Dates: 1959-2013

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