Thea Schleusner

Thea Schleusner (1879-1964) was a German painter.

Biography
Schleusner was born on 30 April 1879 in Wittenberg, Germany. She studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Moderne. In Germany, she studied 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 work is in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay.