Marie Davids (1847–1905) was a German painter.

Life

Davids was born in

Rendsburg Rendsburg ( da, Rendsborg, also ''Rensborg'', nds, Rendsborg, also ''Rensborg'') is a town on the River Eider and the Kiel Canal in the central part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the ''Kreis'' (district) of Rendsburg-Ecke ...

and became a pupil of

Alexander Struys Alexander Theodore Honoré Struys (24 January 1852, Berchem – 25 March 1941, Uccle) was a Belgian genre and portrait painter in the Realistic style. Biography Struys' father (originally from Holland) was a master glass painter. At the age of s ...

. She was active in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

and created mainly portraits. In 1896 and 1904 she exhibited at the

International Exhibition A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large international exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in different parts of the world at a specif ...

. Only in 1889 she was mentioned in the Berliner Adressbuch (Berlin directory) in Bülowstraße 21. 1897 she moved to Nollenorfstraße 10. Her last studio was in Berlin-Tiergarten, Lützowstraße 82. Her work ''Portrait of Fräulein von Sydow'' was included in the book ''

Women Painters of the World ''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of publication. Th ...

''.Women Painters of the World
on Project Gutenberg Marie Davids stayed unmarried.

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1847 births 1905 deaths People from Rendsburg German women painters {{Germany-painter-stub

Life

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