Sophie Küppers

Sophie Lissitzky Küppers (1891–1978), born Sophie Schneider, was a German art historian, patron of the avant-garde, author, and art collector.

She was the artistic director of the Kestner Society in Germany. In 1927 she moved to the Soviet Union and collaborated on a number of large-scale exhibition projects with her second husband, artist and designer El Lissitzky. She later wrote El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Texts (1967). Before moving to the Soviet Union she loaned some thirteen works, including a Klee painting, to the Provinzial Museum in Hanover. In 1937 the Nazis seized the loaned works from the museum as part of the their “degenerate art” campaign. The Nazis sold the works abroad for foreign currency, and the Küppers-Lissitzky collection was dispersed throughout the world. In 1944, three years after Lissitzky died, Küppers was deported as an enemy foreigner to Novosibirsk, where she lived for the next thirty-four years.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ "Revolt, They Said". www.andreageyer.info. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
  2. ↑ "Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers - Monoskop". monoskop.org. Retrieved 2017-08-17.

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