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 the lawyer Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Berger and his wife Marie Wilhelmine Friederike Tiburtius. She was baptized on February 1, 1871 at her home by the deacon of the St. Marien Church , Bublitz.
Gertrud Berger studied in Berlin where she was a student of Max Uth, L. Meyer and Ernst Kolbe. Her subject was 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.