Hermine Lang-Laris (April 2, 1842 – 1913) was an Austrian painter.
Biography Hermine Lang-Laris was born in Vienna, in what was then the Austrian Empire, in 1842. Her father was the palace governor Josef Lang.
Lang-Laris studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with the artists Remigius Adrianus Haanen and Albert Zimmermann.As an artist, she was known for her still lifes, landscapes, and depictions of flowers. Her subjects, style, and brushwork show the influence of the Austrian movement, as well as a close affinity for the works of Emil Jakob Schindler.
Beginning in 1863, she displayed her work at various shows of the Austrian Art Association and the Krakow Art Exhibitions. In 1872, she became the first woman to exhibit regularly at the Vienna Künstlerhaus.
Lang-Laris moved in 1898 to Munich, where she resided until 1913. While there, she joined the , a modernist artistic community founded in 1892, as well as the .
In 1893, one of her paintings was featured at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
She died in 1913.
Selected works
1863: Mond-Landschaft, Motiv aus Weidling in Lach, Partie bei Neuwaldegg, Aus der Umgebung Wiens, Landschaft bei Sonnenuntergang c. 1870: Interieur mit Instrumenten 1891: Der Botanische Garten in Wien 1897: Stillleben
Hermine Lang-Laris Advancement Award In the 1920s, the Hermine Lang-Laris Advancement Award was awarded annually to up-and-coming Austrian female artists. This prize was funded by donations from Lang-Laris' sister, Ernestine Figdor, to the Vienna Künstlerhaus. The prize was awarded each year on April 2, the deceased artist's birthday, to a Viennese female painter.
Winners
1920: Emma Bormann 1921: Bertha von Tarnóczy 1922: Marie Egner 1923: 1924: Valerie Czegelka 1925: Anna Walt-Kammerer 1926: Norbertine Bresslern-Roth 1927: Alice Focke
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