Gertrud Staats (1859–1938) was a German painter and founder of ''Vereinigung Schlesischer Kűnstlerinnen''. She was known for her landscapes.
Biography
Staats was born on 21 February 1859 in
Wrocław
Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...
. She received her first training from .
She also studied with
Hans Gude
Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Ro ...
and
Franz Skarbina in Berlin.
She was acquainted artists from the ''Neu-Dachau'' (New Dachau) including
Adolf Hölzel
Adolf Richard Hölzel (13 May 1853 – 17 October 1934) was a German painter. He began as a Realist, but later became an early promoter of various Modern styles, including Abstractionism.
Biography
Hölzel was born in Olmütz. His father wa ...
and
Ludwig Dill
Wilhelm Franz Karl Ludwig Dill (2 February 1848, Gernsbach - 24 October 1940, Karlsruhe) was a German ship and landscape painter who was a founding member of the Munich Secession.
Life and work
He was the only son of the Tax Assessor (later ...
. Staats incorporated the styles of
Romantic realism
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In literature and art
The term has long standin ...
,
Impressionism
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,
Art Nouveau
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and
Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
.
She exhibited her paintings in Berlin from 1881 through 1912, and in Munich from 1888 through 1908. She also exhibited in Vienna, Dresden, Hamburg, Bremen, Gdańsk, and Bytom.
Staats
exhibited her work at the
Palace of Fine Arts
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and
The Woman's Building at the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition
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in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1902 Staats founded the ''Vereinigung Schlesischer Kűnstlerinnen'', the Association of
Silesia
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n Artists.
In the early 20th century Staats was considered one of the major Silesian landscape painters.
After
World War I
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she shifted her focus from landscape painting to flower and still life painting.
Staats died on 21 June 1938 in Wrocław.
Legacy
Staats' paintings are in the
National Museum, Warsaw
The National Museum in Warsaw (, MNW) is a national museum in Warsaw, one of the largest museums in Poland and the largest in the capital. It comprises a rich collection of ancient art (Art of ancient Egypt, Egyptian, Art in ancient Greece, Greek, ...
, and the Karkonosze Museum in Jelenia Gora.
In 2018 the Royal Palace in Wrocław held a retrospective exhibition of Staats' paintings.
References
External links
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1859 births
1938 deaths
19th-century German artists
German artists
German women artists