Ida Gerhardi (1862 - 1927)

Ida Gerhardi

Ida Gerhardi was a German artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is known as a painter, representative of classical modernism.

Ida Gerhardi at the beginning of her career worked mainly in the genre of landscape, was an adherent of the Barbizon school of painting. Later she began to specialize in portraits, then switched to marine subjects, and in the last years of her life she created still lifes and genre paintings. Beginning in 1900, she was strongly influenced by the Post-Impressionists and Fauvists, and from 1911 by Rhenish Expressionism.