Gertrud Staats Explained

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.

Biography

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]

Legacy

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ratajczak . Elżbieta . Staats Gertrud . Słownik Biograficzny Ziemi Jeleniogórskiej . 13 August 2018.
  2. Web site: Nichols . K. L. . Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893. 13 August 2018.
  3. Web site: Talik . Magdalena . Wystawa śląskiej malarki Gertrud Staats w Pałacu Królewskim . www.wroclaw.pl . 13 August 2018.