Maria Lowenstein

Maria Lowenstein (April 4, 1894 – October 29, 1982) was an American artist.

Life Lowenstein was born Maria Lilli Margarete Baetge in Estonia. In 1914 in Helsinki, she married architect Erich Steinberg, by whom she had a daughter, Karin, (1915-2014). In 1925, Maria married the Jewish German dermatologist Max Loewenstein; their son, Henry, was born that same year. Among the friends of Max and Maria was the composer Kurt Weill.

Having previously studied at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Maria refined her artistic talents at the Institute of Fine Arts in Berlin. Lowenstein emigrated to the United States in 1946 and settled first in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where one of her students was Barrie Karp. Max Loewenstein died in 1948.