Tina Blau, later Tina Blau-Lang (15 November 1845 – 31 October 1916) was an Austrian landscape painter.
Life 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 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, she briefly became his student again.
In 1883, she converted from Judaism to the Evangelical Lutheran ChurchAnna 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, 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 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 Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition 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. In 1897, together with , Rosa Mayreder and , she helped found the "", an art school for women, where she taught until 1915. One of her students was Slovenian painter, teacher and printmaker Avgusta Šantel (1876–1968).
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 "Ehrengrab" (Honor Grave) in the Zentralfriedhof.Hedwig Abraham: Tor 4 – evangelische Ehrengräber. (…) Regina – „Tina“ Blau. In: viennatouristguide.at; retrieved, 26 February 2012. The Vienna Künstlerhaus auctioned off her estate and held a major retrospective in 1917.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, . Wawra, Wien 1917.
References
Further reading Tobias Natter, Claus Jesina: Tina Blau (1845–1916). Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg 1999, . Monika Salzer, Peter Karner: Vom Christbaum zur Ringstraße. Evangelisches Wien. Picus, Vienna, 2008, .
External links
"Frauen in Bewegung": multiple short biographies @ the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek