Thea Schleusner
Thea Schleusner (1879–1964) was a German painter. She was born on 30 April 1879 in Wittenberg, Germany. Schleusner studied art in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Moderne, and in Germany with Franz Skarbina and Reinhold Lepsius. She settled in Berlin, where she painted portraits of Emil Nolde, Albert Einstein, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Much of her work was destroyed in a bombing during World War II. She was a member of the Verein Berliner Künstler. Schleusner died in 1964 in Berlin. Her paintings are in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay.
In 2024 she was honored with a major solo exhibition in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, her hometown. The show displayed hundreds of paintings, drawings and other items at four locations. It was organized by the Naser Foundation of (Re)Discovered Art, following earlier exhibitions and publications made in collaboration with publicist Mathias Tietke.
In November 2024, the Naser Foundation published a counterstatement about statements by Mathias Tietke, describing them as false and defamatory, and noting that Tietke had faced injunctions in the past.
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