Biography

1888

Born as Renate Alice Sintenis March 20, 1888 in Glatz

1902 – 1905

Attended upper grades of a girl’s school in Stuttgart

1908 – 1912

Changed to the Berlin School of Arts and Crafts against her father’s wishes

1917

Acquaintance with Rainer Maria Rilke

1917

Marriage to Emil Rudolf Weiss on December 3

1931

Appointment to the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts

1932

Was awarded the Olympia Prize

1942

Death of her husband

1948

Was awarded the Art Prize of the city of Berlin

1952

Appointment to a Knight of the Peace Class of the order “Pour le Mérite”

1953

Great Cross of the Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

1955

Professorship at the Berlin University of Fine Arts (“Universität der Künste Berlin”)

1965

Renée Sintenis died April 22, 1965 in Berlin-Zehlendorf