Anna Plate

Anna Plate (26 August 1871 - 23 July 1941) was a German painter. She was a prolific creator of still lifes, watercolor flower paintings, street scenes and portraits.

Biography Anna Plate was born in Bremen. Her father was a judge. There followed a couple of years in Munich where she was taught by Ludwig Schmid-Reutte. In 1897 she moved on again, this time to Paris where she enrolled at the independent academy run by the sculptor Filippo Colarossi. The focus of her study in Paris involved the systematic copying of works by three leading masters of impressionism, Courbet, Manet and Renoir. Critics of the period identified clear marks of their influence in Plate's subsequent works. During the years that followed she would undertake further study trips to France. (The "Künstlerverein" - "Artists Association" - set up in Bremen in 1856 would remain a "men only" association till 1928. ) After the "Bremer Malerinnen Verein" was dissolved she became a member of the pan-German "Gemeinschaft Deutscher und Oesterreichischer Künstlerinnenvereine aller Kunstgattungen" ("Association of German and Austrian Women Artists for all types of art") which had been set up from Hamburg by Ida Dehmel.

In 1925 Anna Plate left Bremen and made her new home in Dresden, far to the south and to the east in Saxony, where Anna Plate would live out the final sixteen years of her life. Sources are silent as to what prompted the move. She became a member of the Dresden Artists Association ("Künstlerbund Dresden") and of the "Dresdner Kunstgenossenschaft". She also became part of the Loschwitz [artists'] circle.