Tina Blau

Tina Blau-Lang (* November 15, 1845 in Vienna, † October 31, 1916 ibid ) was an Austrian painter.

Life

Tina Blau was of Jewish origin. She was the daughter of k.k. Army doctor, Simon Blue, who supported their tendency to painting. Tina Blue was a student of August Schaeffer of Vienna Forest, Anton Hanley, William Lindenschmit in Munich (1869-1873) and Emil Jakob Schindler. With the latter, they had from 1875 to 1876 shared a studio, but the artists quarreled.

1883 she converted to the Protestant Church, and married in the same year the horse and battle painter Heinrich Lang ( 1838-1891 ). The couple moved to Munich, where the artist from 1889 taught at the Women's Academy of the Munich artists association landscape and still life. 1890 she had an exhibition at the Kunstverein Munich, where she was able to show 60 works.

After the death of her husband she has traveled to Holland and Italy, and then returned after ten years of absence, to Vienna, where they near the Prater Rotunda her studio [note 1] einrichtete. She founded in 1897 together with Olga Prague, Mayreder and Karl springs art school for women and girls in Vienna [note 2], where they taught from 1898 to 1915 landscape and still life.

Tina Blau-Lang spent her last summer and part of autumn tirelessly working in Gastein, from where she went to study in a Vienna sanatorium - and where he died of cardiac arrest. She was at the Protestant Cemetery Simmering an honorary grave ( Vienna Central Cemetery, Gate 4, Group 3, No. 12 ).

The Vienna Künstlerhaus dedicated to her in September 1917 a memorial exhibition, which was preceded by an auction of the artistic estate in March of this year. 1930 to 1938 in the About Vienna Hietzing belonging District subtree garden a traffic area, the Tina Blue way, named after her.

Importance

Tina Blue is one of the leading Austrian painters of the 19th century. It belongs as Emil Jakob Schindler, Carl Moll, Theodor von Hörmann, Hugo Darnaut, Marie Egner and Olga Wisinger - Florian to the style of Austrian mood impressionism and created in particular landscapes and still lifes. However, it was also known by her professor portraits from the last period.

The artist made ​​extensive study tours, they also led to Bohemia, Moravia and Transylvania, where their first big pictures were taken. However, many of its motifs are from Vienna and its surroundings. The Spring in the Prater, which in 1882 was awarded a prize at the Paris Salon was known. Tina Blue participated in exhibitions in Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Hamburg, Paris and Chicago. She stayed in old age at her painting style and was not interested in the then dominant Art Nouveau.

Works (selection)

  • On the Danube at Haslau ( privately owned), 1872, oil on canvas, 32 × 51 cm
  • Prater ( privately owned), 1882, cardboard, 44.5 × 37 cm
  • View of the Holy City (private property), 1893-97, oil on wood, 41.5 × 58.1 cm
  • On the high mountain in Perchtoldsdorf ( privately owned), 1896, oil on wood, 38 × 46 cm
  • Peony Bouquet ( private property), before 1898, oil on canvas, 126 × 89 cm
  • Windmill at Dordrecht ( privately owned), 1907, oil on wood, 23.5 × 33.2 cm
  • Channel in Friesland ( privately owned), 1908, oil on cardboard, 58.1 × 48.7 cm
  • Spring in the Prater (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1882
  • Hungarian Plain
  • Detwang in the Tauber Valley
  • Dutch harbor, harbor in Piran, Krieau, Italian study, Prater design, high mountain village, study (formerly Nelly and Bernhard Altmann )
  • Dairy farm in the Krieau
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