Gertrud Staats

Gertrud Staats (1859–1938) was a German painter and founder of Vereinigung Schlesischer Kűnstlerinnen. She was known for her landscapes.

Biography Staats was born on 21 February 1859 in Wrocław. She received her first training from . She also studied with Hans Gude and Franz Skarbina in Berlin.

In 1902 Staats founded the Vereinigung Schlesischer Kűnstlerinnen, the Association of Silesian Artists.

In the early 20th century Staats was considered one of the major Silesian landscape painters. After World War I she shifted her focus from landscape painting to flower and still life painting.

Staats died on 21 June 1938 in Wrocław.

Legacy Staats' paintings are in the National Museum, Warsaw, and the Karkonosze Museum in Jelenia Gora. In 2018 the Royal Palace in Wrocław held a retrospective exhibition of Staats' paintings.