Gertrud Metz

Maria Gertrud Metz (born 1746 in Bonn, died 1793 in London), also known as Gertrude or Gertrudis Metz, was a German still life painter.

Life Gertrud Metz was baptized on January 15, 1746, in Bonn. Her father was Johann Martin Metz (1717 or 1730 – 1790), a German painter. Among her siblings are counted the painters Conrad Martin Metz (1749–1827) and Caroline Metz.

Her father gave her her first lessons in painting; later in life she went on to attend the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Metz returned from her studies in 1775; at this point her father realized that her artistic skill had overtaken his own. Früchtearrangement, 33 × 42 cm, oil on copperplate, Finnish National Gallery Blumenstück / Allegorie des Frühlings, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany Früchtestillleben mit Austern, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany Tulpe und Nelke mit Schmetterling, Wallraf–Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany two flower paintings, Schleissheim Palace, Munich, Germany two still lives (flowers and fruits), Museum Bayreuth Stillleben mit Rosen, Tulpen, Narzissen, Chrysanthemen sowie Früchten, einer Schnecke, einer Schlange und Insekten, 76 × 62 cm, oil on canvas, signed