Lea von Littrow
Lea von Littrow | |
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Born | Leontine von Littrow 17 March 1860 Trieste, Italy |
Died | May 11, 1925 Opatija, Croatia | (aged 65)
Nationality | Austrian |
Known for | Painting |
Lea von Littrow (17 March 1860 – 11 May 1925) was an Austrian painter known for her landscapes and marine paintings.
Biography[]
Littrow was born on 17 March 1860 in Trieste.[1] She used the name "Leontine" or "Leo" von Littrow.[2] She studied painting in Paris with the painter Jean d'Alheim.[3] Her parents were Fanny (born Barry) and Heinrich von Littrow who was a captain in the navy and a noted cartographer. The first "von Littrow" was her astronomer grandfather Joseph Johann von Littrow.
Littrow exhibited her work in the rotunda of The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[4] She also exhibited at the annual exhibitions at the Vienna Künstlerhaus, the Munich Glass Palace, and the Salzburger Kunstverein.[3]
Littrow died in 1925 in Opatija.[1]
Legacy[]
Her work was included in the 2019 exhibition City Of Women: Female artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.[5]
Gallery[]
Wäschermädel am Brunnen
Küstenlandschaft bei Ragusa
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Gardonio, Matteo (2015). "La vera identità di Leo von Littrow". AFAT. 34: 176–180.
- ^ "Leontine (Lea) von Littrow". ArtNet. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Littrow, Lea Von". Kunsthandel-Freller. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
- ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 2 November 2018.
- ^ "City of Women". Belvedere Museum Vienna. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
External links[]
Media related to Lea von Littrow at Wikimedia Commons
- 1860 births
- 1925 deaths
- Austrian women painters
- 19th-century Austrian women artists
- 20th-century Austrian women artists
- 19th-century Austrian painters
- 20th-century Austrian painters