Gertrud Berger (15 December 1870 – 26 December 1949) was a German painter of landscapes and still life associated with the town of Greifswald.
Life
Berger was born in 1870 in Bergen auf Rügen. 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
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