Tina Blau, later Tina Blau-Lang (15 November 1845 – 31 October 1916) was an Austrian landscape painter.

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Blau's father was a doctor in the and was very supportive of her desire to become a painter. She took lessons, successively, with August Schaeffer and Wilhelm Lindenschmit in Munich (1869–1873). She also studied with

Emil Jakob Schindler Emil Jakob Schindler (27 April 1842 – 9 August 1892) was an Austrian landscape painter. His eldest daughter was the author and composer, Alma Mahler. Life He was born to a family of cotton spinning-mill operators that had been established in ...

and they shared a studio from 1875 to 1876, but allegedly broke off the engagement after a quarrel. Later, at the art colony in Plankenberg Castle, near

Neulengbach Neulengbach is a municipality in the district of Sankt Pölten-Land in Lower Austria. Population Historical personalities In 1911, the twenty-one year-old artist Egon Schiele met the seventeen-year-old Walburga (Wally) Neuzil, who lived with ...

, she briefly became his student again. In 1883, she converted from

Judaism Judaism ( he, ''Yahăḏūṯ'') is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people. It has its roots as an organized religion in the ...

to the Evangelical Lutheran Church and married Heinrich Lang, a painter who specialized in horses and battle scenes. They moved to Munich where, from 1889, she taught landscape and

still life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...

painting at the Women's Academy of the (Munich Women Artists' Association). In 1890, her first major exhibition was held there. Blau exhibited her work at the

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at the 1893

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in Chicago, Illinois. After her husband's death, she spent ten years travelling in Holland and Italy. After her return, she established a studio in the

Rotunde The Rotunde () in Vienna was a building erected for the Weltausstellung 1873 Wien (the Vienna World Fair of 1873). The building was a partially covered circular steel construction, 84 m (approx. 275 ft) in height and 108 m (approx. 354 ...

. In 1897, together with , Rosa Mayreder and , she helped found the "", an art school for women, where she taught until 1915. She spent her last summer working in Bad Gastein, then went to a sanatorium in Vienna for a medical examination. She died there of cardiac arrest. She was given an "

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" (Honor Grave) in the

Zentralfriedhof The Vienna Central Cemetery (german: Wiener Zentralfriedhof) is one of the largest cemeteries in the world by number of interred, and is the most well-known cemetery among Vienna's nearly 50 cemeteries. The cemetery's name is descriptive of its ...

. The Vienna Künstlerhaus auctioned off her estate and held a major retrospective in 1917.Tina Blau

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''Versteigerung des künstlerischen Nachlasses der Landschaftsmalerin Tina Blau. Mittwoch, den 28 März 1917. Öffentliche Ausstellung daselbst von Sonntag den 25. bis am Dienstag den 27. März 1917''. Serie: ''C. J. Wawra, Wien: Kunstauktion von C. J. Wawra'', . Wawra, Wien 1917.

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multiple short biographies @ the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek {{DEFAULTSORT:Blau, Tina 19th-century Austrian painters 20th-century Austrian painters Artists from Vienna 1845 births 1916 deaths Austrian women painters 20th-century Austrian women artists 19th-century Austrian women artists Converts to Lutheranism from Judaism Austrian Lutherans 19th-century Lutherans

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