Career
Mit Illustrationen von Lene Schneider-Kainer und einem Nachwort von Sabine Dahmen". She started her art studies in Vienna, and continued in Munich, Paris and Amsterdam. Between 1912 and 1926 she lived in Berlin at 78 Niebuhrstraße in Charlottenburg.
In 1914/15 Schneider-Kainer produced a strong and expressive oil painting of the poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schüler.
Schneider-Kainer made her debut as an artist in 1917 with an exhibition of some 50 oil paintings and drawings at the Galerie Gurlitt, shocking the art world of Berlin. There was an uproar over 30 erotic images, illustrating Wieland"s 1788 German translation of the "Dialogues of the Courtesans (Hetaerae)" by Lucian.
In 1926, Schneider-Kainer left Berlin after her divorce and for two years accompanied the poet Bernhard Kellermann on an extended odyssey, often by donkey or caravan, visiting Russia, Persia, India, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Tibet, Hongkong and China. In her memoirs, she wrote:
We travelled through many countries and regions, which had never seen a camera, where the inhabitants either fled from the camera or became nuisances through their insatiable curiosity.. they found it astounding that a woman could draw and write.
She painted, photographed and sketched her impressions, and these contributions appeared regularly in the Berliner Tageblatt.
She did not return to Germany after a 1932 trip to the Balearic Islands because of the power takeover by the National Socialists. After this she settled on Mallorca, and later on Ibiza, where she started an artists" colony. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she left for New New York
Under a pseudonym she published washable fabric children"s books
She had successful exhibitions in Mallorca, Barcelona, Copenhagen, New York and Philadelphia.
