| Gertrud Staats | |
| Birth Date: | 21 February 1859 |
| Birth Place: | Wrocław, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Death Place: | Wrocław |
| Nationality: | German |
| Field: | Painting |
Gertrud Staats (1859 - 1938) was a German painter and founder of Vereinigung Schlesischer Kűnstlerinnen. She was known for her landscapes.
Staats was born on 21 February 1859 in Wrocław. She received her first training from .[1] She also studied with Hans Gude and Franz Skarbina in Berlin. She was acquainted artists from the Neu-Dachau (New Dachau) including Adolf Hölzel and Ludwig Dill. Staats incorporated the styles of Romantic realism, Impressionism, Art Nouveau and Expressionism.[1]
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.[1]
Staats exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[2]
In 1902 Staats founded the Vereinigung Schlesischer Kűnstlerinnen, the Association of Silesian Artists.[3]
In the early 20th century Staats was considered one of the major Silesian landscape painters.[2] After World War I she shifted her focus from landscape painting to flower and still life painting.[1]
Staats died on 21 June 1938 in Wrocław.[1]
Staats' paintings are in the National Museum, Warsaw, and the Karkonosze Museum in Jelenia Gora. In 2018 the Royal Palace in Wrocław held a retrospective exhibition of Staats' paintings.[3]