Gertrud Berger

Gertrud Berger 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. 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 ChildOn the coastDorfstrasse in Wieck near GreifswaldSailing ship in front of pine-covered cliffsDomstrasse in GreifswaldNorth German landscape with windmill and goatherd

''Sailing ship off Usedom''