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Gertrud Berger (15 December 1870 – 26 December 1949) was a German painter of landscapes and still life associated with the town of Greifswald.
Berger was born in 1870 in
Life
Berger was born in 1870 in Bergen auf Rügen
Bergen auf Rügen is the capital of the former district of Rügen in the middle of the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Since 1 January 2005, Bergen has moreover been the administrative seat of the ''Amt'' of Bergen auf ...
. She was the second child of Marie Wilhelmine Friederike Tiburtius and her husband Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Berger, a lawyer and notary. She was baptized on 1 February 1871 at her home by the deacon of the St Mary's Church (Bergen), Bublitz.
Gertrud Berger studied in Berlin where she was a student of Max Uth, L. Meyer, and Ernst Kolbe (1876-1945). Her subjects were landscapes and still lifes. Afterwards she lived and worked in Greifswald.
Berger died in Greifswald in 1949, and her tombstone is in the Greifswald New Cemetery.
Works
* ''Portrait of a Child'' * ''On the coast'' * ''Dorfstrasse in Wieck near Greifswald'' * ''Sailing ship in front of pine-covered cliffs'' * ''Domstrasse in Greifswald'' * ''North German landscape with windmill and goatherd'' * ''Sailing ship off Usedom''
References
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