Alice Michaelis (

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Alice Sara Priester; 5 April 1875 – 23 June 1943) was a

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painter and educator. She was known for paintings of still lifes, interiors, and landscapes. Michaelis was a Holocaust victim.

Early life and education

Alice Sara Priester was born on 5 April 1875 in Berlin,

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(now Germany), to Jewish parents Flora (

Eyck), and merchant Moritz Priester. She studied art at the Berlin painting schools of

Max Uth Gustav Alexander Max Uth (24 November 1863 in Berlin – 15 June 1914 in Hermannswerder, Potsdam) was a German painter of landscapes and art teacher. Uth was the son of a manufacturer and enrolled at the Academy of Art in Berlin under Eugen B ...

, Hans Baluschek,

Lovis Corinth Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism. Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Secessio ...

, and classes the Association of Berlin Women Artists. On 15 October 1899, she married banker Louis Israel Michaelis. They lived in the

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quarter of Berlin at Speyerer Straße 2.

Career and late life

Michaelis was an active member of the Association of Women Artists of Berlin, from 1911 to 1934 and held leadership positions. Michaelis was also a member of the General German Art Association, the Reich Association of Fine Artists in Germany, and Munich Artists' Association.

Death

On 3 October 1942 during

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, she was transported to

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(German-occupied Czechoslovakia; now Czech Republic). Michaelis was murdered on 23 June 1943, at the age of 68, at the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Her husband Louis was also murdered, some six months prior to her at the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Several other members of the Association of Berlin Women Artists were murdered during The Holocaust, including Julie Wolfthorn.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Michaelis, Alice 1875 births 1943 deaths Artists from Berlin Jewish German painters 19th-century German painters 20th-century German painters German people who died in the Theresienstadt Ghetto