Sophie Ley
Ley was born in 1849 in Bodmann am Bodensee, Kingdom of Württemberg. She studied painting with Hans Gude and at the Academia Artium Stuttgardens. She also studied with Eugen Bracht at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe.
Sophie Ley
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- Name
- Sophie Ley
- Birthplace
- Bodmann am Bodensee, Kingdom of Württemberg
- Died
- 1918
- Place of death
- Karlsruhe, German Empire
- Field
- Painting Sophie Ley (1849–1918) was a German painter.
- Born
- 1849 · Bodman.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · artist
- Fields
- painting
- Languages
- German
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Ley was born in 1849 in Bodmann am Bodensee, Kingdom of Württemberg. She studied painting with Hans Gude and at the Academia Artium Stuttgardens. She also studied with Eugen Bracht at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe.
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Ley exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She was a member of the Stuttgarter Künstlerbund (Stuttgart Artists' Association). Ley died in 1918 in Karlsruhe. • Illustration — Apple Blossoms by Sophie Ley, 1893
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• Name — Sophie Ley • Birthplace — Bodmann am Bodensee, Kingdom of Württemberg • Died — 1918 • Place of death — Karlsruhe, German Empire • Field — Painting Sophie Ley (1849–1918) was a German painter.
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- 1.Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts. Siehe Literatur.
- 2.Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Lexikon der Künstlerinnen 1700–1900. Siehe Literatur.
- 3.Mitglieder der Allgemeinen Deutschen Kunstgenossenschaft im Jahre 1899
- 4.Nichols, K. L. Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893.
- 5.Ludwig Klein: Nutzpflanzen der Landwirtschaft und des Gartenbaues. Mit 100 farbigen Tafeln nach den von Frl. Sofie Ley nach der Natur gemalten Aquarellen und 18 einfarbigen Abbildungen. [= Sammlung naturwissenschaftlicher Taschenbücher; 3] Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, Heidelberg 1909.
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