Jewish Street in Amsterdam

Tina Blau was the daughter of a Viennese physician who enthusiastically supported her artistic development through education and travel. Like many women artists of the period, Blau was not permitted to attend a formal art academy and therefore studied privately. After traveling in Europe and living in an artist colony in Hungary, Blau returned to Vienna, where she shared a studio with the landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler. Although their relationship was often characterized as one of pupil and teacher, the two were in fact colleagues. Blau moved to Munich in 1883 and married the painter Heinrich Lang, following her conversion to Protestantism. In Munich, she taught still life and landscape painting at the Münchner Künstlerinnenverein, a fine arts academy exclusively for women. After her husband’s death, Blau returned to Vienna.