Creator Bio
Tina Blau
1845–1916
Tina Blau was the daughter of a Viennese physician who enthusiastically supported her artistic development through education and travel. Like many women artists of the period, Blau was not permitted to attend a formal art academy and therefore studied privately. After traveling in Europe and living in an artist colony in Hungary, Blau returned to Vienna, where she shared a studio with the landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler. Although their relationship was often characterized as one of pupil and teacher, the two were in fact colleagues. Blau moved to Munich in 1883 and married the painter Heinrich Lang, following her conversion to Protestantism. In Munich, she taught still life and landscape painting at the Münchner Künstlerinnenverein, a fine arts academy exclusively for women. After her husband’s death, Blau returned to Vienna.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Jewish Street in Amsterdam
Jewish Street in Amsterdam is one of the many landscapes that Tina Blau painted in her career. It is painted in the style of Austrian Stimmungsimpressionismus (atmospheric impressionism), which was…
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In der Krieau
Tina Blau is best known for her landscapes, which she painted in the style known as Stimmungsimpressionismus (mood impressionism). She played a key role in developing the style in Austria. Der Krieau…
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Painters, Sculptors, and Photographers, 1750–1880
All over the world, Jewish art reflected the hybrid nature of Jewishness, including the material circumstances and cultural milieu of the larger environment. Individual artisans and artists selected and created according to their personal and Jewish experiences.