Tina Blau

A Town Street

The Prater and Rotunda. Vienna

Sunday in the Prater Gardens

View of the Arch of Titus Vespasian and surrounding ruins in the Forum Romanum

A Mediterranean garden

Scene from Franeker in the Netherlands

Roman Capriccio with the Arch of Titus

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

Life

Blau's father was a doctor in the Austro-Hungarian military Medical Corps 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).[1] Later, she studied with Emil Jakob Schindler at the art colony in Plankenberg Castle, near Neulengbach. They shared a studio from 1875 to 1876, but apparently broke off the arrangement after a quarrel.

In 1883, she converted from Judaism to the Evangelical Lutheran Church[2] and married Heinrich Lang (1838–1891), a painter who specialized in horses and battle scenes. They moved to Munich where, from 1889, 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 ten years travelling in Holland and Italy.[1] After her return, ahe establihed a studio in the Rotunde.[3] 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.

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.[3] She was given an "Ehrengrab" (Honor Grave) in the Zentralfriedhof.[4] The Vienna Künstlerhaus auctioned off her estate and held a major retrospective in 1917.[5]

References

A. F. S. (d. i. Adalbert Franz Seligmann): † Tina Blau-Lang. In: Neue Freie Presse, 31. October 1916, p. 25 (Online at ANNO)
Anna L. Staudacher: "… meldet den Austritt aus dem mosaischen Glauben". 18000 Austritte aus dem Judentum in Wien, 1868–1914: Namen – Quellen – Daten. Peter Lang, Frankfurt/M. u.a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-55832-4
A. F. S. (d. i. Adalbert Franz Seligmann): Ein letzter Besuch. In: Neue Freie Presse, 10. November 1916, p. 01 (Online at ANNO)
Hedwig Abraham: Tor 4 – evangelische Ehrengräber. (…) Regina – „Tina“ Blau. In: viennatouristguide.at, abgerufen am 26. Februar 2012.

Tina Blau [Ill.]: 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, ZDB-ID 1224898-8. Wawra, Wien 1917.