Gerta Springer, Holiday Boats in the Harbor, 1935, Oil on Canvas, Framed

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Gerta Springer

1880 Saarburg (Lorraine) - 1960 Munich

"Holiday Boats in the Harbor" (Amsterdam?)

Signed on the reverse, [circa 1935]

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1880 Saarburg (Lorraine) - 1960 Munich

"Holiday Boats in the Harbor" (Amsterdam?)

Signed on the reverse, [circa 1935]

Oil on canvas, framed

Size: 69.2 x 79.5 cm (with frame) / 58 x 68.2 cm (without frame)

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Gerta Springer

Painter, draughtswoman

from January 1907, Gerta Springer attended the Women's Academy in Munich (studying under Rudolf Nissl, Theodor Hummel, Hermann Groeber, and Julius Seyler, among others).

Between 1908 and 1933, she lived on Franz-Joseph-Straße. 32 (Julius Seyler lived in the same house until October 1909) in Munich

In 1943, she moved again to Törwang and lived in an apartment on the Staber family farm.

In 1958, due to age and illness, she returned to Munich.

Travels to Brittany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.

Gerta Springer was unmarried and had no children.

Gerta Springer had a very close relationship with Paula Deppe (1886 Rokycany [Rokitzan] – 1922 Passau), whom Springer also strongly supported. It was Springer who introduced Deppe to Maria Caspar-Filser, Karl Caspar, and the Munich New Secession.

Gerta Springer primarily created loose, late-Impressionist landscapes and still lifes.

Exhibitions (selection):

1914 "Spring Exhibition" of the Munich Secession

1920, 1926-27, 1930-31 Participation in the art exhibition at the Munich Glass Palace
1934-35 Participation in the "Great Munich Art Exhibitions"

Memberships:
from 1913/14 Munich Women Artists' Association, between 1914-17 she served on the association's jury
Munich Art Association
Munich Artists' Cooperative

Collections:
Lenbachhaus, Munich
Oberhaus Museum, Passau
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