Gertrud Staats

Staats was born on 21 February 1859 in Wrocław. She received her first training from Adolf Dressler.[1] She also studied with Hans Gude and Franz Skarbina in Berlin.[2] 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]

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  Landscape, Gertrud Staats
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  Footbridge over woodland stream, Gertrud Staats

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]

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