Lene Schneider-Kainer Collection
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains biographical notes on Lene Schneider-Kainer; photographs of her and signed photographs of the German author Bernhard Kellermann; and an album with newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and photographs. The album covers the years 1929-1951, and includes clippings pertaining to Schneider-Kainer, her work, and exhibits of her work; magazine articles concerning her trip through Asia with Kellermann, some written by him, illustrated with photographs of her related paintings; and photographs of Kellermann, Schneider-Kainer, and her paintings.
Dates
- Creation: 1921-1968
Creator
- Schneider-Kainer, Lene (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German, English, Italian, Spanish, Danish and Thai.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
Lene Schneider was born May 16, 1885, in Vienna, Austria. She studied painting in Vienna and in Munich. From 1926 to 1928, she participated in an expedition to Asia, which brought her and the author Bernhard Kellermann to Iran, Ladakh (Klein-Tibet), India, Thailand, and China. She then moved to Berlin, where she was sustained by the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts and the Villa Masimo in Rome. After a sojourn in Spain in the 1930s, she settled in New York, and in 1954 she moved on to Cochabamba, Bolivia, where she was known under the name Elena Eleska. She died in 1971.
Extent
2 Folders
Abstract
The collection contains biographical notes on Lene Schneider-Kainer; photographs of her and signed photographs of the German author Bernhard Kellermann; and an album with newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and photographs. The album covers the years 1929-1951, and includes clippings pertaining to Schneider-Kainer, her work, and exhibits of her work; magazine articles concerning her trip through Asia with Kellermann, some written by him, illustrated with photographs of her related paintings; and photographs of Kellermann, Schneider-Kainer, and her paintings.
Other Finding Aid
The original German-language inventory is available in the folder
Separated Material
Reisetagebuch 1926-1938, ME 1035 has been removed to the LBI Memoir Collection
Subject
- Schneider-Kainer, Lene (Person)
- Kellermann, Bernhard, 1879-1951 (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Barcelona (Spain)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Eurasia -- Description and travel
- London (England)
- New York (N.Y.)
- Rome (Italy)
- Vienna (Austria)
Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Lene Schneider-Kainer Collection, 1921-1968 AR 3180
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Sarah Glover
- Date
- © 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- July 07, 2014 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
