Grete Csaki-Copony, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Grete Csaki-Copony

German painter

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1893

Place of Birth: Zărnești, Brașov County, Romania

Date of Death: 04-Dec-1990

Profession: painter

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Grete Csaki-Copony

  • Grete Csaki-Copony (12 October 1893—4 December 1990) was a Transylvanian Saxon painter. She was born in Zarne?ti and studied in Dresden, Berlin, Munich and Budapest, where she met and married Richard Csaki (later director of the Deutsches Ausland-Institut in Stuttgart).
  • She spent a lot of time in Berlin from 1911 and was greatly influenced by the art scene in the city.
  • The first solo exhibition of her works was in 1918, in what is today Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu.
  • Her modernistic art was negatively reviewed in the conservative environment.
  • After an exhibition in Berlin in 1935, the Nazi Germans condemned her art as "Degenerate".From 1954, she continuously spent part of the year in Greece, where she had an atelier.
  • In 1962, she settled permanently in Berlin.

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