Margarete Depner (née, Margarete Scherg; 22 March 1885 - 2 September 1970) was a

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

n sculptor, painter and illustrator of

Transylvanian Saxon The Transylvanian Saxons (; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjer Såksen'' or simply ''Soxen'', singularly ''Sox'' or ''Soax''; Transylvanian Landler: ''Soxn'' or ''Soxisch''; ; seldom ''sași ardeleni/transilvăneni/transilvani''; ) are a people ...

ancestry. Born in Braşov in 1885, she died in 1970 in the same city. In 1931, she studied at the

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studio of

Josef Thorak Josef Thorak (7 February 1889 in Vienna, Austria – 26 February 1952 in Bad Endorf, Bavaria) was an Austrian-German sculptor. He became known for oversize monumental sculptures, particularly of male figures, and was one of the most promi ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Depner, Margarete 1885 births 1970 deaths 20th-century Romanian illustrators Romanian women illustrators People from Brașov Transylvanian Saxon people 20th-century Romanian painters 20th-century Romanian sculptors 20th-century Romanian women sculptors 20th-century Romanian women painters