Stefan George Museum Gemälde Sabine Lepsius

Sabine Lepsius (15 January 1864 – 22 November 1942) was a German portrait painter.

Life

She was born in Berlin as the daughter of portrait painter

Gustav Graef Gustav Graef (14 December 1821 – 6 January 1895) was a German painter, primarily of portraits and historical subjects. Life and work Graef was born in Königsberg. In 1842, he entered the University of Königsberg, where he was an enthusia ...

and Franziska Liebreich (1824–1893), a lithographer. She studied with her father and, in 1892, married the painter Reinhold Lepsius. She and her husband were held in equal regard and were very popular with the business community and the wealthy. Her brother was the art historian

Botho Graef Franz Botho Graef (12 October 1857, Berlin – 9 April 1917, Königstein im Taunus) was a German classical archaeologist and art historian. His father was painter Gustav Graef, and his sister, Sabine Lepsius, was also an artist of some note. ...

. She was also a close friend and follower of Stefan George. Her son Stefan (1897–1917), who was killed in World War I, was named after him. In 1935 she published a book about their friendship in which she attributed her brother Botho's fatal heart attack to the news of her son's death. Lepsius exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Her salon in Berlin-Westend was considered a major social gathering point.

Georg Simmel Georg Simmel (; ; 1 March 1858 – 26 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. Simmel was influential in the field of sociology. Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach l ...

Wilhelm Dilthey Wilhelm Dilthey (; ; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held G. W. F. Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher, w ...

, August Endell and