Gertrud Berger (15 December 1870 – 26 December 1949) was a German painter of landscapes and still life associated with the town of

Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. In 2021 it surpa ...

Life

GERTRUD BERGER 1876 - 1950 STRASSENANSICH T - STRALSUND GREIFSWALD NEUBRANDENBURG

Berger was born in 1870 in

Bergen auf Rügen Bergen auf Rügen is the capital of the former district of Rügen in the middle of the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Since 1 January 2005, Bergen has moreover been the administrative seat of the '' Amt'' of Bergen au ...

. She was the second child of Marie Wilhelmine Friederike Tiburtius and her husband Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Berger, a lawyer and notary. She was baptized on 1 February 1871 at her home by the

deacon A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. Major Christian denominations, such as the Cathol ...

of the St Mary's Church (Bergen), Bublitz. Gertrud Berger studied in Berlin where she was a student of

Max Uth Gustav Alexander Max Uth (24 November 1863 in Berlin – 15 June 1914 in Hermannswerder, Potsdam) was a German painter of landscapes and art teacher. Uth was the son of a manufacturer and enrolled at the Academy of Art in Berlin under Eugen B ...

, L. Meyer, and Ernst Kolbe (1876-1945). Her subjects were landscapes and still lifes. Afterwards she lived and worked in

. Berger died in

in 1949, and her tombstone is in the Greifswald New Cemetery.

Works

* ''Portrait of a Child'' * ''On the coast'' * ''Dorfstrasse in Wieck near Greifswald'' * ''Sailing ship in front of pine-covered cliffs'' * ''Domstrasse in Greifswald'' * ''North German landscape with windmill and goatherd'' * ''Sailing ship off Usedom'' Gertrud Berger Kaffeetisch

References

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