Lea von Littrow

Lea von Littrow (17 March 1860 – 11 May 1925) was an Austrian painter known for her landscapes and marine paintings.

Lea von Littrow
Born
Leontine von Littrow

(1860-03-17)17 March 1860
Trieste, Italy
DiedMay 11, 1925(1925-05-11) (aged 65)
Opatija, Croatia
NationalityAustrian
Known forPainting

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]

  • Wäschermädel am Brunnen
  • Küstenlandschaft bei Ragusa

References
  1. Gardonio, Matteo (2015). "La vera identità di Leo von Littrow". AFAT. 34: 176–180.
  2. "Leontine (Lea) von Littrow". ArtNet. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
  3. "Littrow, Lea Von". Kunsthandel-Freller. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
  4. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  5. "City of Women". Belvedere Museum Vienna. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
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