Bertha Schrader

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox artist | name = Bertha Schrader | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1845|06|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Memel, Kingdom of Prussia | death_date = {{death date and age|1920|05|11|1845|06|11|df=y}} | death_place = Dresden, Weimar Republic | education = | field = [[Painting]] | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = }} '''Bertha Schrader''' (11 June 1845 – 11 May 1920) was a German painter, lithographer, and woodblock print-maker.<ref name="RKD">{{cite web |title=Bertha Schrader |url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/231095 |website=RKD |accessdate=2 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

==Biography== Schrader was born on 11 June 1845, in [[Klaipėda|Memel]], [[Lithuania]].<ref name="Benezit">{{cite web |title=Schrader, Bertha |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00164983 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=2 December 2018 |language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00164983 |date=31 October 2011 |archive-date=3 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203060138/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00164983 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She studied with [[Carl Graeb]]'s son Paul Graeb (1842-1892) in [[Berlin]], and with [[Paul Baum (artist)|Paul Baum]] (1854-1932) in [[Dresden]].<ref name="Benezit"/><ref name="Nichols"/> From 1882 to 1916, Schrader was a member of the [[Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen]] (Association of Berlin Artists) where she exhibited her paintings. She was also a member of the Dresden Women Artists Association, serving as the chairwoman.<ref name="Linosaurus">{{cite web |title=Bertha Schrader: mother of all women printmakers? |url=http://gerrie-thefriendlyghost.blogspot.com/2014/09/bertha-schrader-mother-of-all-women.html |website=The Linosaurus |accessdate=2 December 2018 |date=5 September 2014}}</ref>

She [[List of women artists exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition|exhibited]] her work at the [[The Woman's Building (Chicago)|Woman's Building]] at the 1893 [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in Chicago, Illinois.<ref name="Nichols">{{cite web |last1=Nichols |first1=K. L. |title=Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893| url=http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/cassatt10ccc.html#schrader| accessdate=2 December 2018}}</ref>

Schrader died on 11 May 1920, in Dresden.<ref name="Benezit"/>

[[File:Bertha Schrader An der Elbe.jpg|thumb|''An der Elbe'' by Bertha Schrader]]

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==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Bertha Schrader}} * [http://www.artnet.com/artists/bertha-schrader/past-auction-results images of Schrader's work] on ArtNet

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