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Photo: 1915
Tina Regine Leopoldine Blau Lang (https://www.geni.com/people/Tina-Blau-Lang/6000000020690042628)
Tina Blau, later Tina Blau-Lang (15 Nov. 1845, Vienna - 31 Oct. 1916, Vienna); Austrian landscape painter.
.... she taught landscape and still life painting at the Women's Academy of the Münchner Künstlerinnenverein (Munich Artists' Association). In 1890, her first major exhibition was held there.
After her husband's death, she spent 10 years travelling in Holland and Italy....In 1897, together with Olga Prager, Rosa Mayreder and Karl Federn, she helped found the Wiener Frauenakademie, an art school for women, where she taught until 1915.
.... given an "Ehrengrab" (Honor Grave) in the Zentralfriedhof. The Vienna Künstlerhaus auctioned off her estate and held a major retrospective in 1917. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Blau)
One hundred years after her death, the Belvedere is paying tribute to the painter Tina Blau in an exhibition....
https://www.belvedere.at/en/tina_blau
Real artistic creativity was denied to her and her fellow women artists. Only a rare reviewer aptly noted that Tina Blau had still not been fully appreciated: “She is the first among us who saw and made light and air modern at a time when even our most famous and well-known landscape painters stuck to traditional coloristic formulas.” (http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/index.php/autumn05/208-writing-erasing-silencing-tina-blau-and-the-woman-artists-biography)
Her story offers ample documentation through which to examine the silencings of a modern woman artist's life—one who was omitted from the Secession's selective ancestor cult and from modern histories of Austrian art, and literally erased from public spaces through institutionalized anti-Semitism in the late 1930s. Instead of being celebrated... http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/index.php/autu undefined