Sarah Schumann

Sarah Schumann was born in Berlin. Both her father and her mother wer sculptors and taught her basic skills. At the age of 15 she left home and started to live an independent live. When she turned 19 she devoted herself to painting entirely. Five years later she had her first solo show at the Zimmergalerie Franck in Frankfurt am Main. It consisted of "shock"-collages, mostly representations of women. From 1960 until 1963 Sarah Schumann lived in London. During this time she created informal paintings, collages composed of different materials, illustrations (for example for Alice in Wonderland) and her first depictions of Marilyn Monroe.
She moved to Italy in 1963 where she stayed in Piemont until 1968. This was the time of her pink-paintings. She also illustrated Rafael Alberti's poems on angels and produced collages with photographs she had taken herself. To make in incom, she designed book covers for Italien publishing houses. 1968 Return to Berlin.

From 1971 to 1974 Sarah Schumann worked with the women's group "Bread + Roses" based in Berlin.

1974-1977: Along with other women she planned and organized the exibition "Female Artists - international - 1877-1977". Publication of texts written by herself. She begins ...