From October 1963 to April 1965, artist Jurgis Preiss lived and worked in Berlin. There, he executed commissioned portraits of German actresses who served at the Maxim Gorky Theatre – Helene Weigel and Sabine Krug. 

Jurgis Preiss created two painted portraits of Sabine Krug. For the first, the actress herself sat for him; the second one was painted by the artist later, from memory. One of these portraits remained in Germany. The other is kept in the collection of Kemerovo resident Lyudmila Biryukova, the adopted daughter and heiress of the artist. Biryukova more than once presented works by Preiss to the Kemerovo Regional Museum of Fine Arts. She donated the sketch for the portrait of Sabine Krug to the exposition in 2001.