Auguste Schepp (1846–1905) was a German painter.
Biography
Schepp was born on 3 April 1846 in
Wiesbaden
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.
She studied with
Eugen Napoleon Neureuther in
Munich
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and
Karl Ferdinand Sohn in
Düsseldorf
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.
In 1892, Schepp settled in Munich and became a member of the
Munich Secession.
She
exhibited her work during the
Woman's Building at the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition
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in
Chicago
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, Illinois.
Schepp died on 12 April 1905, in
Freiburg im Breisgau
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.
References
External links
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images of Schepp's workon ArtNet
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1846 births
1905 deaths
19th-century German painters
Artists from Wiesbaden
Painters from Hesse
19th-century German women painters